Definition of reify
reified;
reifying
transitive verb
:to consider or represent (something abstract) as a material or concrete thing :to give definite content and form to (a concept or idea)
- … the diversity rationale also insultingly assumes that black students bring a black "point of view," Asians an Asian one and so on, thus reifying the very barriers of race and ethnicity that affirmative action is meant to erase.
- —James Traub
