substantification

English

Etymology

substance +‎ -ification

Noun

substantification (countable and uncountable, plural substantifications)

1. The act, process, or result of substantifying.
   • 1985 [c. 900 CE], Al-Fārābī, translated by Richard Walzer, Al-Farabi on the Perfect State, translation of آراءُ اَهْلِ الْمَدینَةِ الْفاضِلَة (in Arabic), page 103:

     As a result of its substantification in its specific essence, the existence of the sphere of the fixed stars follows necessarily, and as a result of its thinking of the First, a fourth existence follows necessarily.

   • 2002, Richard Cross, The Metaphysics of the Incarnation:

     Involved in the substantification relation between a substance and its accidents is an individuation relation: an accident is individuated by its substance.

   • 2009, Aki Järvinen, Games Without Frontiers: Methods for Game Studies and Design:

     The question is: has this kind of substantification caught on regarding games, which supposedly enforce a stronger adjectival emphasis in comparison to film narrative, due to game system and player co-behaviour?