What is "reified"

Usage examples of "reified".

Until this final stage is reached, each of us is reified by the artifact.

Invoking a complex of network parsers and class filters, she turns the memories into reified images and blats them at the webcam's tiny brain so he can see them.

Tiny bits of debris constantly sloughed or evaporated off any physical object that dared to invade this realm of reified abstractions.

So even this unman, this thing, reified into the top ranks of Nazi officialdom, had "feelings.

But one wonders: Has he not also, in this process, reified -- that is, made into a thing -- other people?

The person has reified himself entirely, along with everyone around him.

More fundamentally, it limits the range of plausibility wave functions that we're willing to perceive, or to collapse into reified events that others can share and verify -- "

As in the life or death of Schrödinger's cat, every decision state in the universe remains indeterminate till it's reified through observation by a thinking being.

In Ritu, technology brought an inner nightmare to life, amplifying an irksome personality trait into a fully reified arch criminal.

Wer'Q'quinn says reified memestuff can sometimes get more rigid than anything made of true matter, like the ideas that become permanently fixed in some living brains.

Various dialectic approaches have developed in Tibetan Bud­dhism, designed to challenge and ultimately to dismantle our reified view of reality.

Birds like reified song soared overhead while small animals and deer gamboled alertly among the woods.

Whatever their origins, the Superbrights were a thousand times as smart as humans: they reified around mythical archetypes, assuming the signifiers of the gods before their awe-struck or otherwise bemused subjects.