reify
C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
To treat an abstract idea or relation as if it were a concrete, material thing.
Critics warned against the tendency to reify 'the market' as though it were a conscious agent.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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