Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

entification en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, rare, uncountable) The action of giving objective existence to something
    • 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:
    • 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 Object:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
entifications Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

entify