reify
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from reification, calque from German. Formed as Latin rēs (“thing”) + -ify (English suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]reify (third-person singular simple present reifies, present participle reifying, simple past and past participle reified)
- (transitive) To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing.
- 2024 September, Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, page 349. "What I've always appreciated about this concept of coincidence ... is how it reifies our search for causality, our need to establish logical connections among disparate events."
Synonyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]- realize (make real)
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing
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