Hypostatize

Quick meaning: Hypostatize is a verb meaning (transitive) To attribute actual or personal existence to.

Meaning

(transitive) To attribute actual or personal existence to.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To render into, or regard as, a separate and distinct substance; to construe a contextually-subjective and complex abstraction, idea, or concept as a universal object without regard to nuance or change in character.

Example Sentences

Progressives are wrong to hypostatize their belief in mankind's eternal advance, and to disavow anything that does not fit this preordained vision.

Roman Christianity is characterized by filial love and obedience expressed towards the fatherly authority hypostatized in the first Person of the Trinity […]

On the other hand, there were a few who could see no objective reality in anything but individuals, and looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals.

Positivism, restricted to a programme of investigating observable particulars, cannot grasp the ‘self-formative process of man as process’. It hypostatizes the abstract concept of fact or datum.

Word Forms

• hypostatizes
• hypostatizing
• hypostatized
• hypostatise

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hypostatise, hypostasize, hypostasise, substantify, enhypostatize, enhypostatise.

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