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thematicizing

thematicizing is the present participle and gerund of thematicize.

Meaning of thematicize

Verb

thematicize (third-person singular simple present thematicizes, present participle thematicizing, simple past and past participle thematicized)

  1. To make into or explore as a theme.
    • As opposed to this, politicology should thematicize practical life as a whole, namely, that part of life in which people joint not as a private political being in a private, separate political community, but as human beings in a community in which they reproduce a separate form of their historical...1979, Jovan Đorđević, Political Science in Yugoslavia: Selected Works, page 64
  2. To insert a thematic vowel.
    • If, on the other hand, /T/ stands under the N or NP marked as GOAL/TARGET/VICTIM, the transduction protocol will thematicize the DO noun, in our case Caesar, and the rest of the lexo-tactics, independently learned and remembered by the speakers, will adjust the verb as Aux + Tense + V + Past...1993, Ádám Makkai, Ecolinguistics: towards a new paradigm for the science of language?, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    thematise
    1. (Indo-European-studies, usually passive voice or intransitive) To change from an athematic type into a thematic one
      • As late PIE evolved and split into dialects, many of the old root nouns and consonant-stems were thematicized.

Questions about thematicizing

What is thematicizing the present participle and gerund of?
Thematicizing is the present participle and gerund of thematicize.

Words near thematicizing in the dictionary

  1. thematicization
  2. thematicizations
  3. thematicize
  4. thematicized
  5. thematicizes
  6. thematicizing
  7. thematics
  8. thematisation
  9. thematisations
  10. thematise
  11. thematised

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