reifyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Back-formation from reification, calque from German. Formed as Latin rēs (“thing”) +‎ -ify (English suffix).

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈɹiː.ə.faɪ/, /ˈɹeɪ.ə.faɪ/

動詞

reify (third-person singular simple present reifies, present participle reifying, simple past and past participle reified)

1. (transitive) To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing.
   • 2024, Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, page 349:

     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.

同意語

• concretize, objectify, picture, thingify

等位語

• realize (make real)

関連する語

• dereify
• dereification
• reification

参考

• conceptualize, hypostatize, personify

アナグラム

• fiery, firey