substantify.
To give material form or substance to; to embody.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word comes from
From Medieval Latin substantificō, from Classical Latin substantia (“substance”) + -ficō.
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