Word of the Day: REIFY

To epitomize, personify, or objectify

reify (verb) - to treat or regard something abstract as a concrete object or thing [ rey-uh-fahy]

BREAKDOWN: RE- (thing) + -IFY (to make)

• reification, also known as objectification, personification, concretism, or hypostatization, is the act of endowing an abstract idea with physical or personal attributes or representations

“Life is simply the reification of the process of living.” —Ernst Mayr

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