hy·pos·ta·tize (h -p s t -tz )
tr.v. hy·pos·ta·tized, hy·pos·ta·tiz·ing, hy·pos·ta·tiz·es
To ascribe material existence to.
[From Greek hupostatos, placed under, substantial, from huphistasthai, to stand under, exist : hupo, beneath; seehypo- + histasthai, middle voice of histanai, to set, place; see epistasis.]
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ta·ti·zation (-t -z shn) n. |
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As a fiction writer, Lucie will seem to hypostatize characters as people.
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