created sense approved 拟物/擬物 · nǐwù · reification — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
拟物 / 擬物
nǐwù
reification
rhetorical device of describing a person or abstract idea as an object, or attributing properties of one object to another
拟 (literal) → 拟/擬 · nǐ · to imitate 物 (literal) → 物 · wù · thing
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition