hypostatize

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Definition of hypostatize in English English dictionary

To construct a contextually-subjective and complex abstraction, idea, or concept into a universal object without regard to nuance or change in character

Progressives are wrong to hypostatize their belief in mankind's eternal advance, and to disavow anything that does not fit this preordained vision. - Cardozo Law Review, February 2005.

construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity

{f} recognize as existing, recognize as a reality

To make into, or regarded as, a separate and distinct substance

To attribute actual or personal existence to

Hyphenation

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