单词 | thingify |
释义 | thingifyv. 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. 80 264 ‘Thingifying’ 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). < v.1871 |
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