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Hypostatize vs Hypostasize - What's the difference?

hypostatize | hypostasize |

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

English

Verb

(hypostatiz)
  • 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
    • Looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals.
  • :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.

    • hypostasize

    English

    Verb

    (hypostasiz)
  • To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize.
    • The pressed Newtonians refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether. — Coleridge.
    (Webster 1913)