different between hypostatize vs reify

English

Alternative forms

• hypostatise

Verb

hypostatize (third-person singular simple present hypostatizes, present participle hypostatizing, simple past and past participle hypostatized)

1. (transitive) 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.
   • 1892, Thomas Henry Huxley, Scientific and Pseudo-scientific Realism

     On the other hand, there were a few who could see no objective reality in anything but individuals, and looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals.

2. (transitive) To attribute actual or personal existence to.
   • February 2005, Cardozo Law Review

     Progressives are wrong to hypostatize their belief in mankind's eternal advance, and to disavow anything that does not fit this preordained vision.

   • , 2011, Paul Evdokimov, Orthodoxy

     Roman Christianity is characterized by filial love and obedience expressed towards the fatherly authority hypostatized in the first Person of the Trinity....

English

Etymology

Back-formation from reification, calque from German. Formed as Latin r?s (“thing”) +? -ify (English suffix).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??i?.?.fa?/, /??e?.?.fa?/

Verb

reify (third-person singular simple present reifies, present participle reifying, simple past and past participle reified)

1. (transitive) to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing

Synonyms

• conceptualize, concretize, objectify, picture, thingify

Related terms

• dereify
• dereification
• reification

Translations

See also

• personify

Anagrams

• fiery, firey