substantify
The English word “substantify” has 4 meanings listed here.
verb
- To give material form or substance to; to embody.
- To reify or hypostatize; to treat something that is fluid or abstract as a static entity without regard to nuance or change in character.
- To endow with a consciousness, will, motivation and independent existence; to give life to; to hypostatize.
- (rare) To transform into or treat syntactically as a noun; to make into or use as a substantive.
Etymology
From Medieval Latin substantificō, from Classical Latin substantia (“substance”) + -ficō.
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