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hypostatize
[ hahy-pos-tuh-tahyz, hi- ]
verb (used with object)
hypostatized, hypostatizing.
- to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality.
hypostatize
/ ɪˈɒəˌٲɪ /
verb
- to regard or treat as real
- to embody or personify
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Derived Forms
- ˌDzٲپˈپDz, noun
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Other Word Forms
- ·Dzt·پ·tDz noun
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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
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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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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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