Dereify
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To cause no longer to be a single coherent entity; to cease to treat as a recognizable object. transitive
"That is, although the insurrectionary consciousness of Antiguan workers is not identical with its African counterpart, it, too, is unable to dereify the social totality and reveal society as a collectively manageable entity."
Example
More examples"That is, although the insurrectionary consciousness of Antiguan workers is not identical with its African counterpart, it, too, is unable to dereify the social totality and reveal society as a collectively manageable entity."
Etymology
From de- + reify.
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