HyperDic: hypostatize

English > 1 sense of the word hypostatize:
VERBcognitionhypostatize, hypostatiseconstrue as a real existence, of a conceptual entity
English > hypostatize: 1 sense > verb 1, cognition
Meaningconstrue as a real existence, of a conceptual entity.
PatternSomebody ----s something
Synonymhypostatise
BroaderreifyConsider an abstract concept to be real
Nounshypostasis(metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality
hypostatizationregarding something abstract as a material thing

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