reifies
Treats as concrete
Reifies means to treat an abstraction as if it were a concrete, material thing.
The term appears most often in academic and philosophical contexts: The study reifies race as a biological category rather than a social construct.
To reify is to make something abstract seem more real or fixed than it actually is—turning concepts, relationships, or processes into apparent objects.
Shows or demonstrates plainly
- crystallizesForms into ordered solid
- actualizesMakes something happen
- realizesComes to understand
- substantiatesConfirms with evidence
materializes · incarnates · objectifies · solidifies · expresses · embodies · externalizes · operationalizes
Study of existence's nature
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
- metaphysicsPhilosophy of existence's nature
- phenomenologyStudy of subjective experience
- objectificationReducing humans to things
abstraction · nominalization · Marx · alienation · fetishism · commodity fetishism · false consciousness · social construct
Treats someone as thing
- commodifiesMakes into tradeable goods
- depersonalizesRemoves individual human qualities
- dehumanizesStrips away personhood
- reducesMakes less in quantity
simplifies · fixates · freezes · essentializes · naturalizes · fetishizes · alienates · externalizes
Attributing humanity to non-humans
- manifestationOutward display of something
- epitomePerfect representative of type
- quintessencePurest embodiment of something
- avatarDigital user representation
exemplification · representation · incarnation · illustration · actualization · instantiation · exemplar · archetype
manifests
Shows or demonstrates plainly
- crystallizesForms into ordered solid
- actualizesMakes something happen
- realizesComes to understand
substantiates · materializes · incarnates · objectifies · solidifies · expresses · embodies · externalizes · operationalizes · formalizes
ontology
Study of existence's nature
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
- metaphysicsPhilosophy of existence's nature
- phenomenologyStudy of subjective experience
objectification · abstraction · nominalization · Marx · alienation · fetishism · commodity fetishism · false consciousness · social construct · category error
objectifies
Treats someone as thing
- commodifiesMakes into tradeable goods
- depersonalizesRemoves individual human qualities
- dehumanizesStrips away personhood
reduces · simplifies · fixates · freezes · essentializes · naturalizes · fetishizes · alienates · externalizes · distances
personification
Attributing humanity to non-humans
- manifestationOutward display of something
- epitomePerfect representative of type
- quintessencePurest embodiment of something
avatar · exemplification · representation · incarnation · illustration · actualization · instantiation · exemplar · archetype · expression
reifiesabstracts
Condensed versions of documents
dematerializes · spiritualizes · sublimates · idealizes · generalizes
reifiesdissolves
Disperses into solution
historicizes · contextualizes · destabilizes · liquefies · problematizes
reifiesdeconstructs
Analyzes by breaking apart
critiques · denaturalizes · demystifies · unpacks · interrogates