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reification Definition


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reify
verb
    reifies, reified, reifying
    1. To think of (something abstract) as a material thing; to materialize.
Derivative: reification
    The turning of something abstract into an object; materialization.
    Especially in Marxist terminology: depersonalization.
Derivative: reificatory
adj
    Derivative: reifier
    noun
      Etymology: 19c: from Latin res thing.



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