Word.ws English Dictionary

conceptualize

conceptualize verb: to interpret a phenomenon by forming a concept.

Verb

conceptualize (third-person singular simple present conceptualizes, present participle conceptualizing, simple past and past participle conceptualized)

  1. (transitive) To interpret a phenomenon by forming a concept.
    • Medicine today conceptualizes the heart as a machine.2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 150
    • Conceptualized as a neurological difference, autism is viewed as part of human diversity (Cherewick & Matergia, 2024; Taboas et al., 2023).2025 May 14, Carmit-Noa Shpigelman, Gal Hodara Hassan, ““The System Sweeps it Under the Rug”: Educational Staff’s Perspectives on Romantic Relationships Among Autistic Adolescents”, in Journal of...
  2. (transitive) To conceive the idea for something.
    • EconBiz was established as part of the Virtuelle Fachbibliotheken, a network of subject-related online portals conceptualized in the late 1990s and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).2023, Emily Nickerson and Christian Schmidt, “Database review: EconBiz”, in Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, volume 28, number 4, page 303

conceptualize meaning in Bengali and Arabic

conceptualize in Bengali

ধারণা করা, ধারণায় রূপ দেওয়া

conceptualize in Arabic

to conceive the idea for something
تَصَوَّرَ taṣawwara

Examples of conceptualize in a sentence

  • Thus, fans can fully conceptualize the murder husbands' relationship in post-fall fix-it fics.
  • Another way the tear film may be conceptualized is as a 2 layer system.
  • Children use the criteria to conceptualize the mental state and to infer its presence or absence.

All 17 example sentences with conceptualize

Forms of conceptualize

third-person singular presentconceptualizes
present participleconceptualizing
past participleconceptualized
pastconceptualized
alternative UKconceptualise

Past tense of conceptualize: conceptualized

Origin of conceptualize

From conceptual + -ize.

Words formed from conceptualize

Questions about conceptualize

What does conceptualize mean?
Conceptualize means to interpret a phenomenon by forming a concept.
What is conceptualize in Bengali?
Conceptualize in Bengali is ধারণা করা, ধারণায় রূপ দেওয়া. See Conceptualize meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is conceptualize?
Conceptualize is a verb.
What is the past tense of conceptualize?
The past tense of conceptualize is conceptualized.

Words near conceptualize in the dictionary

  1. conceptuality
  2. conceptualizability
  3. conceptualizable
  4. conceptualization
  5. conceptualizations
  6. conceptualize
  7. conceptualized
  8. conceptualizer
  9. conceptualizers
  10. conceptualizes
  11. conceptualizing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: conceptualize (page history and authors); conceptualize (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-conceptualize.wav.

Cite this entry: “conceptualize.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/conceptualize. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.