subjectification

noun

subjectification

noun

Etymology From subject + -ification.

1

The process of subjectifying.

  • Words shift in meaning for many reasons, including cultural factors like new technologies and regular linguistic processes like subjectification.2016, William L. Hamilton, Jure Leskovec, Dan Jurafsky, “Cultural Shift or Linguistic Drift? Comparing Two Computational Measures of Semantic Change”, in arXiv:
Derived terms
desubjectification

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