REIFY (reified)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: reified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does reify mean? 

• REIFY (verb)
  The verb REIFY has 1 sense:

1. consider an abstract concept to be real

  Familiarity information: REIFY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reify    ... he / she / it reifies   
Past simple: reified   
Past participle: reified   
-ing form: reifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Consider an abstract concept to be real

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "reify" is one way to...):

consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reify"):

hypostatise; hypostatize (construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

reification (regarding something abstract as a material thing)