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reify

re·i·fy

reify

 
pronunciation:
ri faI
features:
Word Combinations (verb)
part of speech: transitive verb
inflections: reifies, reifying, reified
definition: to regard (an abstract idea) as something concrete or material.
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adverb + (v.)reify easily, either, even, far, heavily, however, often, only, therefore
(v.)reify + nounHelp abstraction, art, artist, aspect, belief, boundary, category, community, concept, concern, culture, danger, difference, discourse, distinction, division, duality, effect, element, embodiment, ethnicity, experience, fact, form, gender, group, history, idea, identity, islam, language, law, material, memory, message, narrative, nation, network, notion, object, past, patrimony, performance, policy, power, process, realm, relation, relationship, representation, right, self, sense, setting, sign, sin, state, stereotype, structure, subject, tendency, thinking, town, version, vision, voice [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivation: reification (n.)