entification

English

Noun

entification (countable and uncountable, plural entifications)

1. (rare) The action of giving objective existence to something
   • 1960, Willard Van Orman Quine, Word and Object:

     Entification begins at arm's length; the points of condensation in the primordial conceptual scheme are things glimpsed, not glimpses.

   • 1993, Jacques Lacan, translated by Russell Grigg, The Psychoses: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book III:

     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?

Related terms

• entify

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989