hypostatize

especially British, hy·pos·ta·tise

[hahy-pos-tuh-tahyz, hi-]

verb (used with object)

hypostatized, hypostatizing 

1. to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality.

hypostatize

/ haɪˈpɒstəˌtaɪz /

verb

1. to regard or treat as real

2. to embody or personify

Other Word Forms

• hypostatization noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of hypostatize¹

First recorded in 1820–30; from Greek hypostatós, hypóstatos “set under, (in Stoic philosophy) substantially existing” ( hypostatic ) + -ize

Example Sentences

This conception of wisdom became still further hypostatized.

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The Chinese could not hypostatize in the manner of the West.

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As Green tended to hypostatize the organic conception, so Dewey would make it a concrete reality, with the further specification that it must be something given to psychological observation.

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This he accounts for by by hypostatizing a "raw material" in consciousness which is, must be, present.

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What it demands of the ghost, and of all hypostatized or anthropomorphized ultimate value-forms, is that they shall work, and its life as an institution depends upon making them work.

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Related Words

• demonstrate 
• epitomize 
• exemplify 
• exhibit 
• express 
• illustrate 
• incorporate 
• manifest 
• mirror 
• personify 
• realize 
• stand for 
• symbolize 
• typify