Reify

Human beings interpersonally categorize to create and reify roles, social hierarchy, and relationship rules.

The attorney tried to reify the statement so it would become more real for the jury.

Reification

The issue of students'overloaded burden reflects the reification of children and the alienation of education.

Reified

And Disney has, in other ways, reified the genre by dusting off its animated classics and finding box-office glory with live-action remakes.

to make something more real or consider it as real