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REIFICATION
Definition of REIFICATION
noun
The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
First attested around 1846; a macaronic calque of German Verdinglichung, using -ification (“making”) for ver- + -lich + -ung, and Latin rēs (“thing”) for Ding (“thing”)
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,817)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, REIFICATION · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
REIFICATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 155, 22 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
REIFICATION starts with R and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ACEFIIINORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start REIFICA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found REIFICATION?
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