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theorizing

theorizing is the present participle and gerund of theorize.

Meaning of theorize

Verb

theorize (third-person singular simple present theorizes, present participle theorizing, simple past and past participle theorized)

  1. (intransitive) To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject.
    • Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten...2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257
  2. (intransitive) To speculate.

Noun

theorizing (plural theorizings)

  1. The formation of theories.

Forms of theorizing

pluraltheorizings

Phrases with theorizing

Questions about theorizing

What does theorizing mean?
Theorizing means the formation of theories.
What is theorizing the present participle and gerund of?
Theorizing is the present participle and gerund of theorize.
What part of speech is theorizing?
Theorizing is a noun.
What is the plural of theorizing?
The plural of theorizing is theorizings.

Words near theorizing in the dictionary

  1. theorize
  2. theorized
  3. theorizer
  4. theorizers
  5. theorizes
  6. theorizing
  7. theorizings
  8. theorum
  9. theory
  10. theory of abrupt appearance
  11. theory of everything

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