| Meaning | Consider an abstract concept to be real. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Narrower | hypostatize, hypostatise | construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity |
| Broader | see, consider, reckon, view, regard | deem to be |
| Spanish | cosificar, reificar | |
| Nouns | reification | regarding something abstract as a material thing |
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