| 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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