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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: regarding something abstract as a material thing [syn: hypostatization, hypostatisation, reification]
2: representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality; "according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual" [syn: depersonalization, depersonalisation, reification]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1846 the process or result of reifying