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?

References
  • OED 2nd edition 1989
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