Undertheorize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Undertheorize is a verb meaning To theorize insufficiently.
Meaning
To theorize insufficiently.
Example Sentences
While Sharp acknowledges creative nonviolent intervention as a technique of nonviolent action, he undertheorizes its centrality for promoting political change.
While Hutcheon stresses that irony cannot actively create communities, that they must exist prior to the enunciation, she undertheorizes the potential of making members of existing discursive communities present to one another and of strengthening the visceral experience of community.
Word Forms
- undertheorizes
- undertheorizing
- undertheorized
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include theorize, theoretize, suppose, theoreticize, metatheorize, retheorize.
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