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THEORISATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does theorisation mean?
• THEORISATION (noun)
The noun THEORISATION has 1 sense:
1. the production or use of theories
Familiarity information: THEORISATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The production or use of theories
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
theorisation; theorization
Hypernyms ("theorisation" is a kind of...):
conjecture (reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "theorisation"):
ideology (imaginary or visionary theorization)
abstraction; generalisation; generalization (the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances)
Derivation:
theorise (to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds)
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