EGAVE

substantify

Meaning

  1. verb To give material form or substance to; to embody.
  2. verb To reify or hypostatize; to treat something that is fluid or abstract as a static entity without regard to nuance or change in character.
  3. verb To endow with a consciousness, will, motivation and independent existence; to give life to; to hypostatize.
  4. verb To transform into or treat syntactically as a noun; to make into or use as a substantive.

Similar words

substantiate substantize substance substantialize substantialise substantivate embody externalize concretize body

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