reification

Other forms of reification

plural

reifications·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reification

What does reification mean?

reification means "regarding something abstract as a material thing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reification?

reification has 5 syllables: re-i-fi-ca-tion. The stress falls on "ca".

What is another word for reification?

Close synonyms include hypostatization, hypostatisation, depersonalization, depersonalisation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reification a common word?

reification is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.