to conceptualize
- verb
- /kənˈsɛptʃuəˌlaɪz/
- The architect can conceptualize a new design for the community center that meets everyone's needs.
- a way of conceptualizing
- conceptualize a problem
- conceptualize the relationship
And they went through this process of conceptualizing these strange molecules.
- And they went through this process of conceptualizing these strange molecules.
- What we see so often is people conceptualizing the owning class as this.
- It is a new way of conceptualizing a fact that she already knew.
- Well, how would that be conceptualized religiously?
- But you know, how do you conceptualize drives within us?
- So then that means that you're, whatever you you conceive and conceptualize is truth.
- And I think that turns out to be a really good way to conceptualize most enzymatic reactions.
- But what I don't know how to conceptualize is that I am living a life.
- People also often when they conceptualize their ideal boss will prefer a female leader.
- Here is how to conceptualize failure and the disappointment that goes along with it.
- So like, you've got this like verbal processing of what we've conceptualized and what you've written.
Examples
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Particularly common to these critical thinkers will be their ability to conceptualize original solutions to complex problems.
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The value of these exchanges in price risk protection is difficult to conceptualize and measure intuitively.
Academic text (1991) -
It's more like, how did they conceptualize things like charge and current?
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And so to conceptualize this if we're at the top here.
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The important thing is that person that is able to conceptualize that idea.
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Did you help him conceptualize dealing with pain and fear?
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So I can conceptualize it, but I struggle to conceptualize things that I cannot see or feel.
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Here is how to conceptualize failure and the disappointment that goes along with it.
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For instance, the model could be used to conceptualize turnover in a church congregation.
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Now there's a whole different way of conceptualizing and approaching the topic.
Synonyms
To form a picture in your mind of something not real
Invent a plan or idea in your mind
To picture something in your mind, often a possible future
Form a clear picture of something in your mind
To form an idea or plan in your mind
To create and describe an idea, plan, or theory clearly
To make up an idea, plan, or excuse
To quickly think of many ideas, often with other people
Form an idea to explain why something happens with little proof
To imagine something as possible or real
To form a picture in your mind of something not present
To think about an idea for a long time until it becomes clear
To think of new ideas
To form an idea or picture in your mind
Antonyms
How Developed
Surface Forms
Morphology
conceptualize = conceptual (transparent) = concept + ual + ize
Standard verb formation from the adjective 'conceptual' using the productive suffix '-ize'.
Etymology
The word conceptualize starts with concept, a word for an 'idea' or something 'formed in the mind', and ends with -ize, which means 'to make'. So to conceptualize is to 'make' or 'form' an idea in your mind, which is why we use it for imagining or planning something.