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HYPOSTATIZATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hypostatization mean?
• HYPOSTATIZATION (noun)
The noun HYPOSTATIZATION has 1 sense:
1. regarding something abstract as a material thing
Familiarity information: HYPOSTATIZATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Regarding something abstract as a material thing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
hypostatisation; hypostatization; reification
Hypernyms ("hypostatization" is a kind of...):
objectification (the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing)
Derivation:
hypostatize (construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity)
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