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reconceptualizing

reconceptualizing is the present participle and gerund of reconceptualize.

Meaning of reconceptualize

Verb

reconceptualize (third-person singular simple present reconceptualizes, present participle reconceptualizing, simple past and past participle reconceptualized)

  1. (transitive) To conceptualize afresh; to develop a replacement concept of.

Noun

reconceptualizing (plural reconceptualizings)

  1. A reconceptualization.
    • Thanks to recent reconceptualizings of how literary texts relate to other texts and discourses, we need not fret as much as scholars once did about how to distinguish "genuine" influences from commonplace images, techniques, or ideas […]1997, Richard Mallette, Spenser and the Discourses of Reformation England, page 6

Forms of reconceptualizing

pluralreconceptualizings

Questions about reconceptualizing

What does reconceptualizing mean?
Reconceptualizing means a reconceptualization.
What is reconceptualizing the present participle and gerund of?
Reconceptualizing is the present participle and gerund of reconceptualize.
What part of speech is reconceptualizing?
Reconceptualizing is a noun.
What is the plural of reconceptualizing?
The plural of reconceptualizing is reconceptualizings.

Words near reconceptualizing in the dictionary

  1. reconceptualization
  2. reconceptualizations
  3. reconceptualize
  4. reconceptualized
  5. reconceptualizes
  6. reconceptualizing
  7. reconceptualizings
  8. reconcilability
  9. reconcilable
  10. reconcilableness
  11. reconcilables

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reconceptualizing (page history and authors); reconceptualize (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.

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