substantify (English, verb)
expansion: substantify (third-person singular simple present substantifies, present participle substantifying, simple past and past participle substantified)
Senses:
glosses: To give material form or substance to; to embody.
glosses: To reify or hypostatize; to treat something that is fluid or abstract as a static entity without regard to nuance or change in character.
glosses: To endow with a consciousness, will, motivation and independent existence; to give life to; to hypostatize.
topics: human-sciences
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glosses: To transform into or treat syntactically as a noun; to make into or use as a substantive.
Forms:
form: substantifies
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: substantifying
tags: participle
present
form: substantified
tags: participle
past
form: substantified
tags: past