GRE Plus Vocab

Sunday, October 02, 2005

REIFICATION

reify
(verb transitive)
-[fied, -[fying = to treat (an abstraction) as substantially existing, or as a concrete material object
rei[fication
n.

This is a powerful word, to translate abstract thoughts into concrete reality.
All of us dream and imagine what not...the idea is to shape all that into tangible for-all-to-see-and-feel stuff, to reify that. Towards this we need to keep in mind the obstructions the real world puts across, but with our grit and resolve, we can get what we dreamt of.

An entrepreneur does it, a scientist does it, a painter does it, a social reformer does it: reification of ideas.

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