to substantialize

Examples

• All

• His dreams of becoming an artist were substantialized when he sold his first painting at the gallery.

• Through careful research, the scientist substantialized her theory, demonstrating its validity with concrete evidence.

• Inside the modern spaces of museum, gallery, and showroom, Rietveld is delivered up to the practice of art history as a name, however substantialized, part of a series: the story of art history as a narrative of becoming in which each proper name becomes a historical site, a position, arranged one after another, before and after.

  Academic text (2002)

• Even in the case of proper names, of Napoleon or Duchamp, our language does not point to an individual body, but to a historical role, and even more, to the arguments, assumptions, and interpretations that fill out that role; as Sande Cohen notes of Ankersmit's argument, "names are substantialized."

  Academic text (2002)

Synonyms

M

to materialize

vsto substantialize

63 5.8

To become real or happen as hoped

focuses more on giving physical form rather than simply occurring

A

to actualize

vsto substantialize

• US

8 7.1

Make an idea or plan become real

leans more toward making things tangible or physical

S

to substantiate

vsto substantialize

• Formal

2 7.4

To make an idea seem real or clear to others

stresses creating physical or tangible substance rather than status

C

to concretize

vsto substantialize

• US

1 7.9

To make an idea or plan clear and specific

focuses more on producing a physical, touchable form

C

to corporealize

vsto substantialize

• Formal

1 9.9

To make an idea or feeling into something physical

is broader often covering both abstract and nonphysical realization

How Concrete

to substantialize

9.0

to embody

104 5.1

to materialize

63 5.8

to realize

• US

142 2.7

to create

∞ 1.0

plan

∞ 1.0

to conceive

74 5.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology