Hypostatized vs Hypostatizes - What's the difference?
hypostatized | hypostatizes |
(hypostatize)
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 hypostatized and hypostatizes
is that hypostatized is (hypostatize) while hypostatizes is (hypostatize).hypostatized
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Verb
(head)hypostatize
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Verb
(hypostatiz)- Looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals.