reify

英 ['riːɪfaɪ; 'reɪɪ-] 美 ['refaɪ]
  • vt. 使具体化;使人为物
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reify 使具体化

来自拉丁语 res,事物,物体,事实,词源同 real,reality.-fy,使。

reify (v.)
"make into a thing; make real or material; consider as a thing," 1854, back-formation from reification, or else from re-, stem of Latin res "thing, object, matter, affair, event, circumstance, condition," from PIE *re- "to bestow, endow" + -fy. Related: Reified; reifying.