HyperDic: reify

English > 1 sense of the word reify:
VERBcognitionreifyconsider an abstract concept to be real
English > reify: 1 sense > verb 1, cognition
MeaningConsider an abstract concept to be real.
PatternSomebody ----s something
Narrowerhypostatize, hypostatiseconstrue as a real existence, of a conceptual entity
Broadersee, consider, reckon, view, regarddeem to be
Spanishcosificar, reificar
Nounsreificationregarding something abstract as a material thing

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