hypostatize

A verb used to express the act of treating an abstract concept or quality as if it were a concrete, physical entity or substance.

• 🇵🇹Verbo usado para designar a ação de tratar uma ideia ou qualidade abstrata como se fosse uma entidade concreta, física ou substancial; também pode significar personificar ou materializar algo abstrato.

1. Treat an abstraction as real C2 formal

   To treat or regard an abstract concept or idea as if it were a concrete, real thing or substance.

   • Philosophers often warn against hypostatizing 'justice' as a tangible object.
   • The poet hypostatized love as a beautiful goddess.
   • In his theory, he hypostatized 'the market' as an independent force.

   🇵🇹Hipostasiar

   Sinônimos: concretizeembodymaterializeobjectifypersonifyreify

• hypostatized past participle
• hypostatized past simple
• hypostatizing present participle
• hypostatizes third person singular