REIFYING Synonyms

• make real or concrete; give reality or substance to

• represent or describe realistically

• make something concrete

• become specific

• represent in bodily form

• represent, as of a character on stage

• represent or express something abstract in tangible form

• possessing or existing in bodily form

• invested with a bodily form especially of a human body

• make concrete and real

• represent in bodily form

• represent by an instance

• find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word)

• come into being; become reality

• make external or objective, or give reality to

• make impersonal or present as an object

• have the idea for

• make something concrete

• become specific

• make external or objective, or give reality to

• make impersonal or present as an object

• a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

• graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface

• a clear and telling mental image

• a situation treated as an observable object

• illustrations used to decorate or explain a text

• a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement

• the visible part of a television transmission

• a graphic or vivid verbal description

• a typical example of some state or quality

• a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format

• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

• show in, or as in, a picture