reification
reification — 名詞
1. the act or practice of treating an abstract idea, quality, or feeling as if it w
物化；具體化
把抽象概念當作具體事物看待
the act or practice of treating an abstract idea, quality, or feeling as if it were a physical object that can be seen, touched, or handled
Yael argued that the reification of love in films creates unrealistic expectations for real relationships.
Yael 認為愛情在電影中的物化，使人們對真實關係產生不切實際的期待。
reification of [abstract concept] in [domain]
Hassan criticized the reification of time in workplaces that treat each minute as profit.
Hassan 批評那些把每分鐘都視為利潤的職場文化，是對時間的物化。
The historian examined the reification of national identity in school textbooks from the early 1900s.
那位歷史學者檢視了二十世紀初的教科書中，國族認同如何被具體化。
Heloísa saw the reification of class in how hotels offered different services to guests.
Heloísa 從旅館如何對不同客人提供不同服務中，看到了階級的物化。
- concretization
closer to everyday usage; less critical in tone and more about making something specific rather than misleadingly treating an abstraction as real
- objectification
more specific — usually refers to treating a person as an object, with stronger negative moral connotation
- hypostatization
a narrower, highly technical philosophical term for treating an abstraction as a substance or entity
- abstraction
the opposite process — moving from a concrete instance to a general idea
- disembodiment
the act of separating an idea from any physical or concrete form
文法句型
the reification + of + [abstract noun]
用法筆記
Frequently used in academic writing about philosophy, sociology, and linguistics. The word carries a critical tone — it often implies that treating an abstraction as a concrete thing is misleading or harmful. Typically uncountable; plural form (reifications) appears only in highly technical philosophical texts.