reify
pronunciation
How to pronounce reify in British English:
UK ['ri:ɪfaɪ]
How to pronounce reify in American English:
US ['riəˌfaɪ]
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- Verb:
- consider an abstract concept to be real
Word Origin
- reify (v.)
- "make into a thing; make real or material; consider as a thing," 1854, back-formation from reification, or else from re-, stem of Latin res "thing, object, matter, affair, event, circumstance, condition," from PIE *re- "to bestow, endow" + -fy. Related: Reified; reifying.
Example
- 1. It is so difficult not to reify the world , and instead to recognize that I am implicated everywhere and in every impression .
- 2. The element of international society is real , but the elements of a state of war and of transnational loyalties and divisions are real also , and to reify the first element , or to speak as if it annulled the second and third , is an illusion .
- 3. S critical view of the tendency to reify mental processes , especially the pictures , I gave you at the beginning of this paper , must be looked at critically , because visualization fosters reification of mental processes .