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verb (used with object), -fied, -fy·ing.
to convert into or regard as a concrete thing: to reify a concept.
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Reification
is always a great word to know.
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| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
Example Sentences
- Perhaps it sets all of us back a few years because of its reification of gender stereotypes.
- Most prejudice is usually an example of what is called reification.
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Word Origin & History
reification
1846, "act of materializing," from L. re-, stem of res "thing." In Marxist jargon, translating Ger. Verdinglichung.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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reification
the treatment of something abstract as a material or concrete thing, as in the following lines from Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach": The Sea of FaithWas once, too, at the full, and round earth's shoreLay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
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