dereify

English

Etymology

de- +‎ reify

Verb

dereify (third-person singular simple present dereifies, present participle dereifying, simple past and past participle dereified)

1. (transitive) To cause no longer to be a single coherent entity; to cease to treat as a recognisable "thing".
   • 1996, Paget Henry, Paul Buhle, C. L. R. James’s Caribbean, page 247:

     That is, although the insurrectionary consciousness of Antiguan workers is not identical with its African counterpart, it, too, is unable to dereify the social totality and reveal society as a collectively manageable entity.

Related terms

• dereification

Anagrams

• redeify, reedify