MEANING
Understand or represent something through a particular concept or conceptual framework.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- conceptualize a problem
- conceptualize a relationship
On the page
The essay conceptualizes migration as an ongoing relationship rather than a single departure.
Researchers conceptualized resilience differently, so their measures were not directly comparable.
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Word forms
- Base
- conceptualize
- Past tense
- conceptualized
- Past participle
- conceptualized
- Present participle
- conceptualizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- conceptualize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are conceptualizing
- Present perfect
- have/has conceptualized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been conceptualizing
- Past
- conceptualized
- Past continuous
- was/were conceptualizing
- Past perfect
- had conceptualized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been conceptualizing
- Future
- will conceptualize
- Future continuous
- will be conceptualizing
- Future perfect
- will have conceptualized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been conceptualizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: conceptualize; conceptualizes; conceptualized; conceptualized; conceptualizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: interpretation, analysis. Disciplines: general academic writing. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: conceptualizes.
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