Hypostatize vs Hypostasize - What's the difference?
hypostatize | hypostasize |
To make 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.
* Popular Science Monthly
: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
To attribute actual or personal existence to.
To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize.
In transitive terms the difference between hypostatize and hypostasize
is that hypostatize is to attribute actual or personal existence to while hypostasize is to make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize.hypostatize
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(hypostatiz)- Looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals.
hypostasize
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(hypostasiz)- The pressed Newtonians refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether. — Coleridge.