hypostatize
verb/haɪˈpɒstətaɪz/
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὑποστατίζω (hupostatízō, “I hypostatize”).
- borrowed from ὑποστατίζω
Definitions
To render into, or regard as, a separate and distinct substance
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.
- 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.
To attribute actual or personal existence to.
- 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 […]
The neighborhood
- neighborhypostasis
- neighborembody
- neighborpersonify
- neighborreify
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for hypostatize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA