subsumption
1
9.8
- noun
- /səbˈsʌmpʃən/
- Formal
:
subsumción
- In many scientific discussions, subsumption is essential for explaining how specific theories fit into larger frameworks.
Examples
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A strange reversal takes place within the subsumption of invented traditions by confabulatory practices.
Academic text (1990) -
In Zanzotto's poetry, on the other hand, the question arises from a specific internal site: how can one remain Venetian in the face of the national identity challenge, the television-induced standardization of language, the subsumption of local economies into a national one, and so forth?
Academic text (1995) -
Why, I would ask, should we suppose that sameness or subsumption to the whole will solve the problem?
Blog text (27) -
Organic unity is harmony with an Other; it is a unity of mutual respect and not of subsumption or command.
Academic text (1999) -
That is also roughly the order of decreasing strength, increasing legibility, and partial subsumption of the four forces.
Blog text (32) -
Western capitalism in its totality is a truly exotic cultural scheme, as bizarre as any other, marked by the subsumption of material rationality in a vast order of symbolic relationships.
Academic text (1996) -
In this paper, I want to suggest that in the modern history of Shetland, there has been a subsumption of practices that imagined identity and community through the invention of tradition into a new "regime of value" (Appadurai 1986: 15).
Academic text (1990) -
In the West Bank, where the subsumption of peasant production by capital advances in concert with a colonizing drive that cuts at the rural economy's roots, preservation-dissolution takes an especially contradictory form.
Academic text (1990) -
Over a half-century later, however, that catastrophe appears precisely to have overtaken us, not in the dramatic form supposed by Sartre but as the gradual subsumption of the human subject to the logic of an integrated spectacle culture.
Academic text (2004) -
The act of subsumption allows us to classify different animals into broader groups like mammals, reptiles, and birds.
Synonyms
1
7.5
Putting things into smaller groups inside a larger group because they are similar
Antonyms
How Inclusive
- Formal
1
9.8
- Specialized
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4.6
65
3.7
8
3.2
64
4.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
subsumption = assumption (semi-transparent) = sub + sumpt + ion
The prefix 'sub-' indicates a lower or subordinate level, but the specific meaning of categorization is not immediately obvious.
Etymology
Subsumption comes from the Latin parts sub- 'under' and sumere 'to take'. So it is like putting a small thing under a bigger label, which is why subsumption means including something in a larger category.