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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing;

2. a concrete representation of an abstract idea or principle;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

objectification \objectification\ n. representing as an object. [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

objectification n 1: the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing 2: a concrete representation of an abstract idea or principle