Definition:
Ossify literally means to turn into bone, but it is also used to describe ideas or systems becoming stiff with age. The word suggests flexibility lost over time, replaced by hardness and permanence. Ossified things resist change, even when change is necessary. The term carries a sense of slow, irreversible setting. It captures transformation into something enduring but unyielding.
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