Indifferentiate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Indifferentiate is a verb meaning To make less distinct; to obscure any differentiation.
Meaning
To make less distinct; to obscure any differentiation.
Example Sentences
To "reconcile" is not to harmonize but to indifferentiate polar differences, vivaciously balancing the oppositional tensions.
In Britain, Gay Times discreetly became GT in March 2007, presumably all the better to indifferentiate it from the titles of other magazines, such as GQ and FHM, and thereby to consolidate continuities within the male homosocial spectrum.
if there be not in nature a state exactly the opposite of the primary action, it appears to endeavor to indifferentiate itself, that is, to make its superior power available in the extinction of the change wrought in it from without (by the medicine), in the place of which it substitutes its normal state.
Religious indifferentiation therefore stands for a third category of relation with the sacred, situated between the full identification of the sacred with the profane (as in ecstatic states) and their total separation (as in modern, disenchanted culture). Typically, folk religiosity greatly affirms the disposition to “indifferentiate”.
Word Forms
- indifferentiates
- indifferentiating
- indifferentiated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include blur, obscure, befog, obscurify, undefine, dedifferentiate.
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