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HYPOSTATIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hypostatize mean?
• HYPOSTATIZE (verb)
The verb HYPOSTATIZE has 1 sense:
1. construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity
Familiarity information: HYPOSTATIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they hypostatize ... he / she / it hypostatizes
Past simple: hypostatized
Past participle: hypostatized
-ing form: hypostatizing
... he / she / it hypostatizes Past simple: hypostatized
Past participle: hypostatized
-ing form: hypostatizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
hypostatise; hypostatize
Hypernyms (to "hypostatize" is one way to...):
reify (consider an abstract concept to be real)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
hypostasis ((metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality)
hypostatization (regarding something abstract as a material thing)
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