VERB | cognition | hypostatise, hypostatize | construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity |
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Meaning | construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Synonym | hypostatize | |
Broader | reify | Consider an abstract concept to be real |
Nouns | hypostatisation | regarding something abstract as a material thing |
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