reify
verb/ˈɹiː.ə.faɪ/UK
Etymology
Back-formation from reification, calque from German. Formed as Latin rēs (“thing”) + -ify (English suffix).
- derived from suffix)
Definitions
To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing.
- 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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for reify. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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