English Explanatory Dictionary

substantify

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To give material form or substance to; to embody.
  2. 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. To endow with a consciousness, will, motivation and independent existence; to give life to; to hypostatize.
  4. To transform into or treat syntactically as a noun; to make into or use as a substantive.

Word forms

substantify substantifies substantifying substantified

Etymology

From Medieval Latin substantificō, from Classical Latin substantia (“substance”) + -ficō.

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