Usually means: Making abstract concepts into reality.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word reification:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. reification: Merriam-Webster
  2. reification: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reification: Collins English Dictionary
  4. reification: Vocabulary.com
  5. reification: Wordnik
  6. reification: Wiktionary
  7. reification: Dictionary.com
  8. reification: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. Reification (Gestalt psychology), Reification (Marxism), Reification (computer science), Reification (disambiguation), Reification (fallacy), Reification (knowledge representation), Reification (linguistics), Reification (statistics), Reification: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. reification: Rhymezone
  11. reification: FreeDictionary.org
  12. reification: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. reification: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reification: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reification: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Reification: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. reification: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  3. reification: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reification: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (reification)

noun:  The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
noun:  The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
noun:  (programming) A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.
noun:  (linguistics) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.

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