VERB | cognition | hypostatize, hypostatise | 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 | hypostatise | |
Broader | reify | Consider an abstract concept to be real |
Nouns | hypostasis | (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality |
hypostatization | regarding something abstract as a material thing |
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