Usually means: Attributing reality to concepts, abstractions.
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  1. hypostatization: Merriam-Webster
  2. hypostatization: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hypostatization: Vocabulary.com
  4. hypostatization: Wordnik
  5. hypostatization: Wiktionary
  6. hypostatization: Dictionary.com
  7. Hypostatization: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. hypostatization: Rhymezone
  9. hypostatization: FreeDictionary.org
  10. hypostatization: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. hypostatization: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hypostatization)

▸ noun:  The act or process of being hypostatized.

Similar:
reification, hypostatisation, hypostasization, hypostasis, orthostasis, hystericization, hypertextualization, anhypostasia, enhypostasis, hypothesization, more...

Opposite:
depersonalization, abstraction, generalization

Types:
personification, metaphor, synecdoche, allegory, more...

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Similar:
reification, hypostatisation, hypostasization, hypostasis, orthostasis, hystericization, hypertextualization, anhypostasia, enhypostasis, hypothesization, more...

Opposite:
depersonalization, abstraction, generalization

Types:
personification, metaphor, synecdoche, allegory, more...



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