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HYPOSTATIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they hypostatize ... he / she / it hypostatizes
Past simple: hypostatized
Past participle: hypostatized
-ing form: hypostatizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity
Synonyms:
hypostatise; hypostatize
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "hypostatize" is one way to...):
reify (consider an abstract concept to be real)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
hypostasis ((metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality)
hypostatization (regarding something abstract as a material thing)
