conceptualize

[ kuhn-sep-choo-uh-lahyz ]

/ kənˈsɛp tʃu əˌlaɪz /

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verb (used with object), con·cep·tu·al·ized, con·cep·tu·al·iz·ing.

to form into a concept; make a concept of.

verb (used without object), con·cep·tu·al·ized, con·cep·tu·al·iz·ing.

to form a concept; think in concepts.

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Also especially British, con·cep·tu·al·ise .

Origin of conceptualize

First recorded in 1875–80; conceptual + -ize

OTHER WORDS FROM conceptualize

con·cep·tu·al·i·za·tion

[kuhn-sep-choo-uh-lahy-zey-shuhn] /kənˌsɛp tʃu ə laɪˈzeɪ ʃən/ especially British, con·cep·tu·al·i·sa·tion, nouncon·cep·tu·al·iz·er; especially British, con·cep·tu·al·is·er, nounre·con·cep·tu·al·ize; especially British, re·con·cep·tu·al·ise, verb (used with object), re·con·cep·tu·al·ized, re·con·cep·tu·al·iz·ing or (especially British) re·con·cep·tu·al·ised, re·con·cep·tu·al·is·ing.

Words nearby conceptualize

conceptor, conceptual, conceptual art, conceptualism, conceptualization, conceptualize, conceptually, conceptual realism, conceptus, concern, concerned

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How to use conceptualize in a sentence

Hardy, who had conceptualized the aquatic theory 30 years earlier, initially refused to publish anything on it lest he ruin his nascent academic career.
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Simon Kuznets, the Nobel Prize–winning economist who conceptualized GDP, warned in the 1960s that “distinctions must be kept in mind between quantity and quality of growth, between its costs and return.”
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A group of blind men, who’ve never seen an elephant before, each touches a different part of the elephant’s body to conceptualize what the animal is like.
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The best way to conceptualize Wilson’s renormalization group, said Paul Fendley, a condensed matter theorist at the University of Oxford, is as a “theory of theories” connecting the microscopic with the macroscopic.
How Mathematical ‘Hocus-Pocus’ Saved Particle Physics|Charlie Wood|September 17, 2020|Quanta Magazine

Hastings offered up a hypothetical of how someone at Netflix might guide an employee to say, conceptualize an ad highlighting Netflix’s bingeable quality — and how easily that guidance can go awry.
What if Your Company Had No Rules? (Bonus Episode)|Maria Konnikova|September 12, 2020|Freakonomics
They offer crucial evidence that it is utterly impossible to conceptualize humanity without literature.
Aleksandar Hemon on Jorge Luis Borges’s ‘Funes the Memorious’|Aleksandar Hemon|September 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Health is simple to conceptualize—it is what we all hope to have and maintain.
A Doctor’s View of the Supreme Court’s Health-Care Ruling|Kent Sepkowitz|June 28, 2012|DAILY BEAST
BASTIANICH: Every accomplished home cook needs to be able to conceptualize and execute a complete dinner party.
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This approach permits us to conceptualize as well as contextualize the knowledge of nursing the story tells.
Nursing as Caring|Anne Boykin
Faculty are supported in their struggles to conceptualize nursing in a new way.
Nursing as Caring|Anne Boykin
Only in the sense of this power to transform and conceptualize, does the mind have knowledge within itself.
International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I|Various
We must give serious thought to our obsession with invulnerability, easy to conceptualize and express in language.
The Civilization of Illiteracy|Mihai Nadin

British Dictionary definitions for conceptualize

conceptualize

conceptualise

/ (kənˈsɛptjʊəˌlaɪz) /

verb

to form (a concept or concepts) out of observations, experience, data, etc

Derived forms of conceptualize

conceptualization or conceptualisation, noun

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