to reify

Examples

• All

• Finding your voice as though it's something that's real and can be reified, right?

• Rivera's private collection was Mexico's largest, a self-affirming assemblage that reified his success and his Mexicanidad.

  Academic text (2000)

• Second, interests are not to be reified and considered independent from social groups.

  Academic text (2017)

• One wonders, has he not also in this process reified, that is, made into a thing?

  Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

• American scientists and academic experts reified their scientific knowledge into a variety of concrete programs in receiving countries.

  Academic text (2013)

• Are fiesta cycles, thus, a political manipulation in order to reify a community?

  Academic text (1991)

• However, in its own fiesta, each city celebrates and reifies a separate "personality," or culture.

  Academic text (1991)

• Tourism is a vital part of the dialogic in which local Andalusian identity becomes reified.

  Academic text (1998)

• To do so raises the danger of reifying cultural categories and, in their deconstruction, becoming analytical dead ends.

  Academic text (1992)

• When these idea frameworks become reified and portray a perfect endpoint for a society, they become utopian visions.

  Academic text (2008)

Synonyms

A

to actualize

vsto reify

• US

8 7.1

Make an idea or plan become real

perceives it as real without causing it to gain actual existence

O

to objectify

vsto reify

2 7.4

To make an idea or feeling into a real, visible thing

focuses on seeing it as real rather than merely representing it as an object

S

to substantiate

vsto reify

• Formal

2 7.4

To make an idea seem real or clear to others

treats the idea as real in thought rather than actually making it real

I

to instantiate

vsto reify

• Specialized

1 9.6

To show a general idea by giving a clear example

treats the concept itself as real rather than just providing an example

C

to concretize

vsto reify

• US

1 7.9

To make an idea or plan clear and specific

shows it as real in perception without actually creating concrete form

C

to corporealize

vsto reify

• Formal

1 9.9

To make an idea or feeling into something physical

regards the idea as real in thought rather than actually turning it physical

H

to hypostatize

vsto reify

• Formal

9.9

To treat an idea as if it were a real thing

treats it as if real without claiming it truly exists

H

to hypostasize

vsto reify

• Formal

9.9

To treat an idea or quality as a real, separate thing

is used widely beyond philosophical or theological contexts

Antonyms

A

to abstract

6 7.3

To think about something in a general way without details

How Concrete

to materialize

63 5.8

to reify

• Formal

3 9.9

to conceptualize

12 6.9

to abstract

6 7.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology