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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 theoriesplay

  Familiarity information: THEORISATION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


THEORISATION (noun)


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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