objectification

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
objectification
    n 1: the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing
    2: a concrete representation of an abstract idea or principle
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
objectification \objectification\ n.
   representing as an object.
   [WordNet 1.5]
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