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reify, v.|ˈriːɪfaɪ, ˈreɪɪf-|
[f. as reification + -ify.]
trans. To convert mentally into a thing; to materialize.
1854Fraser's Mag. LXIX. 75 The gods of their final and accepted polytheism were, in point of fact, only those sublimer portions of nature which..they had not yet dared to reify. 1882Pop. Sci. Monthly XXI. 151 When people make or find a new ‘abstract noun’, they instantly try to put it on a shelf or into a box, as though it were a thing; thus they reify it. 1931M. R. Cohen Reason & Nature iii. iii. 390 There is..a fundamental philosophic issue: the extent to which the principle of unity should be hypostatized or reified (I wish the use of the word thingified were more common). 1953C. E. Osgood Method & Theory in Experim. Psychol. xvi. 680 The second hindrance to objectivity is the ubiquitous tendency to reify the word, to assume the word itself some⁓how carries its own meaning. 1971Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Dec. 1619/3 To look upon them [sc. economic laws] as objective necessities, as bourgeois economists do, is to reify them. 1979E. H. Gombrich Sense of Order x. 282 The temptation to ‘reify’ the shield into the open mouth of a gaping mask..proved as irresistible as did the opportunity of turning spiralling volutes into suggestions of eyes.
Hence ˈreified ppl. a., ˈreifying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1941H. Marcuse Reason & Revol. iv. 115 Lordship and bondage result of necessity from certain relationships of labor, which are, in turn, relationships in a ‘reified’ world. 1962Macquarrie & Robinson tr. Heidegger's Being & Time ii. vi. 487 Why does this reifying always keep coming back to exercise its dominion? 1965B. Pearce tr. Preobrazhensky's New Economics 47 One can..understand its laws in the spirit of vulgar economics, that is, by offering in the guise of science mere superficial description, complete with the reified relations of commodity production. 1969R. Blackburn in Cockburn & Blackburn Student Power 207 An alienated society naturally encourages a re-ifying vocabulary. 1979E. H. Gombrich Sense of Order ix. 242 It is surely not far-fetched to interpret its coiling frame as a reified flourish on a reified support. |