conceptualize
verbEtymology From conceptual + -ize.
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To interpret a phenomenon by forming a concept.
- Medicine today conceptualizes the heart as a machine.2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 150:
- Conceptualized as a neurological difference, autism is viewed as part of human diversity (Cherewick & Matergia, 2024; Taboas et al., 2023).2025 May 14, Carmit-Noa Shpigelman, Gal Hodara Hassan, ““The System Sweeps it Under the Rug”: Educational Staff’s Perspectives on Romantic Relationships Among Autistic Adolescents”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, →DOI:
2
To conceive the idea for something.
- EconBiz was established as part of the Virtuelle Fachbibliotheken, a network of subject-related online portals conceptualized in the late 1990s and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).2023, Emily Nickerson and Christian Schmidt, “Database review: EconBiz”, in Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, volume 28, number 4, page 303:
- Derived terms
- conceptualizable, conceptualization, conceptualizer, deconceptualize, misconceptualize, misconceptualized, nonconceptualized, reconceptualize, unconceptualized