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REIFY
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Irregular inflected form: reified
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they reify ... he / she / it reifies
Past simple: reified
Past participle: reified
-ing form: reifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Consider an abstract concept to be real
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "reify" is one way to...):
consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reify"):
hypostatise; hypostatize (construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
reification (regarding something abstract as a material thing)
