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单词 thingify
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thingifyv.

Brit. /ˈθɪŋᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈθɪŋəˌfaɪ/
Forms: 1800s– thingify, 1900s– thingafy (rare).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: thing n.1, -ify suffix.
Etymology: < thing n.1 + -ify suffix.Compare the following isolated earlier occurrence, apparently merely intended to show the supposed etymology of think v.2:1818 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 885 To think (Ding, denken; res, reor) is to thingify.
transitive. To make or turn into a thing; to reify. Also: to treat or regard as a thing, to objectify.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > render material [verb (transitive)]
immerse1605
clod1610
material1643
corporify1644
terrestrify1646
corporize1691
materialize1710
terrestrialize1829
reify1854
thingify1871
sensualize1884
1871 Galaxy Sept. 443 ‘There!’ he gasped, as he wabbled his hand and arm through something meant for a parabola; ‘there is wit personified—or thingified.’
1924 Yale Law Jrnl. 33 476 We must..constantly resist the tendency to which we are all subject to reify, ‘thingify’, or hypostatize ‘rights’.
1950 G. Marcel Myst. of Being I. iv. 49 Such an affirmation would result in the end in idealism's once more thingifying the self.
2006 Jrnl. Teacher Educ. 57 271/2 This recognition asks us to reject any action that treats anyone as an object, any gesture that thingifies other human beings.

Derivatives

ˈthingifying n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > materialization
hylasmus1664
materialization1843
reification1846
corporealization1863
thingifying1931
thingification1935
1931 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. & Amer. Law Reg. 80 264Thingifying’ of concepts, vicious unreflective abstractionism, hypostatisation, ‘wousining’ seems to be in part due not to language but to the misuse of language.
1972 Guardian 7 Feb. 12/8 The thingifying of anything else on the road—whether it's another competitor or..a stray pedestrian.
2002 New Republic (Nexis) 23 Dec. 37 I knew that there was a blatant contradiction between this brutish thingifying of women and my nervous attention to them as individuals in real life.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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