To make something an explicit or central theme.
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Words that belong together
- thematize a problem
- thematize an experience
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The chapter thematized a problem that the earlier account left implicit.
The exhibition thematized the experience of waiting through its arrangement.
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Word forms
- Base
- thematize
- Past tense
- thematized
- Past participle
- thematized
- Present participle
- thematizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- thematize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are thematizing
- Present perfect
- have/has thematized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been thematizing
- Past
- thematized
- Past continuous
- was/were thematizing
- Past perfect
- had thematized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been thematizing
- Future
- will thematize
- Future continuous
- will be thematizing
- Future perfect
- will have thematized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been thematizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: thematize; thematizes; thematized; thematized; thematizing 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: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: uncommon. Third-person singular: thematizes.
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