Concretize vs Hypostatize - What's the difference?
concretize | hypostatize |
To make substantial, real, or tangible; to represent or embody a concept through a particular instance or example.
* 1962 , , "How Some Speak and Yet Do Not Speak of God," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , vol. 23, no. 2, p. 275,
* 1999 , Sherry D. Akins, "Vital Signs: Teaching and Grieving," The American Journal of Nursing , vol. 99, no. 8, p. 88,
* 2003 , Larry Alexander, "Is Judicial Review Democratic? A Comment on Harel," Law and Philosophy , vol. 22, no. 3-4, p. 280,
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.
As verbs the difference between concretize and hypostatize
is that concretize is to make substantial, real, or tangible; to represent or embody a concept through a particular instance or example while hypostatize is 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.concretize
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Alternative forms
* concretiseVerb
- An essence exists if and only if it is actualized or concretized somehow , in some concrete form.
- But Ms. Yauger's death concretized these abstract discussions and theories.
- Rights in this way stem from social conventions that concretize and shape the values that underlie them.
Anagrams
* ----hypostatize
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Verb
(hypostatiz)- Looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals.