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Reify

//ˈɹiː.ə.faɪ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing. transitive

    "What I've always appreciated about this concept of coincidence ... is how it reifies our search for causality, our need to establish logical connections among disparate events."

  2. 2
    consider an abstract concept to be real wordnet

Etymology

Back-formation from reification, calque from German. Formed as Latin rēs (“thing”) + -ify (English suffix).

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