Meanings
nounentification (countable and uncountable, plural entifications)
plural entifications
- countablerareuncountableThe action of giving objective existence to something
Entification begins at arm's length; the points of condensation in the primordial conceptual scheme are things glimpsed, not glimpses.
1960, Willard Van Orman Quine, Word and Object1 more example
Where, therefore, are we to locate the mediating element... which is the conflict-free sphere, which thus becomes the mythical locus of the most incredible reaction entifications?
1993, Jacques Lacan, translated by Russell Grigg, The Psychoses: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book III
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