theorize
verbUK /ˈθɪə.ɹaɪz/ · US /ˈθɪɹ.aɪz/
Etymology From theory + -ize. First use appears c. 1599 in the text A pil to purge melancholie.
1
To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject.
- Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago.2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257:
- There are processes of collective individuation that produce the transindividual in the course of a process of transindividuation (which Simondon does not theorize as such).2018, Bernard Stiegler, Automatic Society: The Future of Work, page 152:
2 more examples
- Autistic rhetoric scholar Melanie Yergeau theorizes neuroqueer as a kind of “asocially perverse” motioning.2021, Ryan Lee Cartwright, Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 188:
- The homeowner theorized that the intruders saw that the house was up for sale and targeted it for their rager.2022 June 22, Selim Algar, “Incensed owner of $8M Florida mansion ransacked by teens wants them prosecuted”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2022:
2
To speculate.
- Derived terms
- conspiracy theorize, mistheorize, overtheorize, retheorize, theorizable, theorizer, undertheorize, undertheorized, untheorized