Reify

//ˈɹiː.ə.faɪ//

Synonyms for "reify" (10 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Strong matches (3)

Verb(1 words)

Related words (5)

Related word relations

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8 relation types

More general

5 entries

Synonyms

1 entries

Related terms

3 entries

coordinate

1 entries

derived

6 entries

derived from

1 entries

manner of

1 entries

related to

8 entries

Translations

23 translations across 14 languages.

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Arabic

2 entries
  • جَسَّدَ verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)
  • جَسَّمَ verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • материализирам verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)

Catalan

1 entries
  • reïficar verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)

Dutch

2 entries
  • concretiseren verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)
  • verstoffelijken verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)

Finnish

3 entries
  • esineellistää verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)
  • havainnollistaa verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)
  • tehdä käsinkosketeltavaksi verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)

French

1 entries
  • réifier verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)

German

3 entries
  • reifizieren verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)
  • verdinglichen verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)
  • vergegenständlichen verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • המחיש verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • опредметува verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • tingliggjøre verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • coisificar verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)
  • reificar verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)

Russian

1 entries
  • материализовать verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)

Spanish

1 entries
  • cosificar verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)

Turkish

3 entries
  • cisimleştirmek verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)
  • maddeleştirmek verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)
  • somutlaştırmak verb (to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing)

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Could you make an example to reify your idea?

Source: tatoeba (1395150)

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.

Source: wiktionary

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