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Materialise vs Reify - What's the difference?

materialise | reify |

As verbs the difference between materialise and reify

is that materialise is standard spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling|materialize|lang=en while reify is to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing.

materialise

English

Verb

(materialis)

    • References

    * L Picknett: Encyclopaedia of the Paranormal (1990) "The dead materialised in full form ..." * Alistair McLean: (1969) " ... he materialised a taxi out of nowhere."

    reify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing

    • Synonyms

    * conceptualize, concretize, objectify, picture, thingify

    Related terms

    * reification

    See also

    * personify

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