reificatory
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That reifies.
Example Sentences
- "For one, the reification of cultural identities can be a political necessity in the pursuit of equal rights: precisely because the reificatory discourse is the dominant one in the politics of representation, both political and mediatic, it is a useful resource in challenging established inequalities."
- "His conceptualization eschews some crucial normative and epistemological distinctions between various forms or modalities of translation, especially between stronger and weaker ones (or reificatory and non-reificatory ones) and, in doing so, impairs our ability to evaluate them, viz. of choosing the side of the weak."
- "Note that wherever, above, I have spoken about 'time' and 'times', I should be understood to have done so entirely without reificatory intent."
Etymology
From reification + -ory.