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theorize

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8
Pronunciation
/ˈθɪə.ɹaɪz/
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/ˈθɪə.ɹaɪz/ · /ˈθiː.ə.ɹaɪz/ · /ˈθɪɹ.aɪz/ · /ˈθi.ə.ɹaɪz/ · /ˈθɪə.ɹɑɪz/ · /ˈθiː.ə.ɹɑɪz/ · /ˈθɪɹ.ɑɪz/

Definition of theorize

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive)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.”
    “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).”
    “Autistic rhetoric scholar Melanie Yergeau theorizes neuroqueer as a kind of “asocially perverse” motioning.”
    “The homeowner theorized that the intruders saw that the house was up for sale and targeted it for their rager.”
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verb

  1. (intransitive)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.”
    “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).”
    “Autistic rhetoric scholar Melanie Yergeau theorizes neuroqueer as a kind of “asocially perverse” motioning.”
    “The homeowner theorized that the intruders saw that the house was up for sale and targeted it for their rager.”
  2. (intransitive)To speculate.

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Etymology

From theory + -ize. First use appears c. 1599 in the text A pil to purge melancholie.

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