Theorize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈθɪə.ɹaɪz/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Theorize is a verb meaning (intransitive) To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject.
Meaning
(intransitive) To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject.
More Meanings
- (intransitive) To speculate.
Example Sentences
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.
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).
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.
Word Forms
- theorizes
- theorizing
- theorized
- theorise
Synonyms for theorize
Depending on context, synonyms include conjecture, speculate, suppose, hypothesize, hypothecate, theorise.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hypothesize, conjecture, speculate, suppose, theorise, hypothecate.
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