reify

• Etwas Abstraktes oder Begriffliches als konkrete, materielle Sache darstellen oder behandeln; eine Abstraktion wie ein reales Objekt betrachten.

A verb used to indicate the act of making something abstract or conceptual into a concrete or material thing; to treat an abstraction as if it were a real object.

1. Treat an abstraction as realC2formal

   To consider or treat an abstract concept, idea, or quality as if it were a concrete, physical thing.

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   • The philosopher argued that we should not reify 'justice' as a tangible object.
   • In some theories, 'the market' is reified as an independent force.
   • The artist's work reifies emotions into physical sculptures.

   Synonymeconcretizehypostatizeobjectifyrealize