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Meanings of concretism in English

The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete or material.

A representation of an abstract idea in concrete terms.

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Examples for "reification"
Examples for "reification"
1
The envoys are perceived as the cormorant reification of their remote controllers.
Financial Crime and Corruption
2
In organics, the soil is the reification of a giving mother's love.
Radio NZ
3
The suggestion that marriage can have exact and intrinsic features is a reification fallacy.
The Irish Times
4
This happened simultaneously with the reification of many other forms of human praxis: religion, the judiciary, the military.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
5
This is not counting "serial" movies such as James Bond, the reification of paranoia shaken and stirred.
Financial Crime and Corruption