Definition of "reified" [reified]

• Simple past tense and past participle of reify. (verb)

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• "That experience of having your ‘common sense’ suspicions elegantly reified is a guaranteed zinger, and I think it’s where long-lasting ideologies are born."
• "“Orientalism has become a reified ‘Other,’” writes Irwin of Said."
• "It got me to thinking about this sides-of-the-brain thing, a genuinely innovative idea from neuroscience, which, like so many valid scientific insights, got reified, oversimplified and misinterpreted by popular psychology."