HYPOSTATIZATION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Regarding something abstract as a material thing

Synonyms:

hypostatisation; hypostatization; reification

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("hypostatization" is a kind of...):

objectification (the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing)

Derivation:

hypostatize (construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity)

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