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Meaning of thingification | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
/θɪŋɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/

Definitions

The fact or process of turning something into a thing.

Examples

“Dictionaries alone aren't responsible for the thingification of natural languages, but they crystallized a peculiar modern view of what it means to have a language.”
“This is what happens when a country doesn’t see some people as fully human. It’s what the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the “thingification of the Negro.””

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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