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reify

[ ree-uh-fahy, rey- ]

verb (used with object)

reified, reifying.
  1. to convert into or regard as a concrete thing:

    to reify a concept.



reify

/ ˈːɪˌڲɪ /

verb

  1. tr to consider or make (an abstract idea or concept) real or concrete
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈˌھ, noun
  • ˌ𾱴ھˈپDz, noun
  • ˌ𾱴ھˈٴǰ, adjective
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ··ھ··پDz [ree-, uh, -f, uh, -, key, -sh, uh, n, rey, -], noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of reify1

First recorded in 1850–55; from Latin ŧ() “thing” + -ify
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of reify1

C19: from Latin ŧ thing; compare deify
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Recent Supreme Court rulings have laid the groundwork for this strategy by reifying the right-wing belief that "science" is whatever a Federalist Society-selected judge says it is.

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We see this push for closure reified across American culture.

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The brain latches on or compares itself to others, starting a negative cycle of thinking that can reify itself.

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Scholars have shown us the iteration of the KKK in the 1910s and 1920s was a thoroughly Christian movement to reify the American social order in the wake of Reconstruction.

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Pitsilionis was born in Greece; he credits his commitment to hospitality in part to his homeland’s culture, reified working in his family’s restaurant after they moved to Kenai, Alaska.

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