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/ˈɹiː.ə.faɪ/ · verb
(transitive) To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing..
What I've always appreciated about this concept of coincidence ... is how it reifies our search for causality, our need to establish logical connections among disparate events.
Use reify when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Reify means (transitive) To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing..
Common synonyms include concretize, objectify, picture, thingify.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
What I've always appreciated about this concept of coincidence ... is how it reifies our search for causality, our need to establish logical connections among disparate events.
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