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undertheorizing

undertheorizing is the present participle and gerund of undertheorize.

Meaning of undertheorize

Verb

undertheorize (third-person singular simple present undertheorizes, present participle undertheorizing, simple past and past participle undertheorized)

  1. To theorize insufficiently.
    • While Sharp acknowledges creative nonviolent intervention as a technique of nonviolent action, he undertheorizes its centrality for promoting political change.2005, Kurt Shock, chapter 2, in Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies, page 45

Questions about undertheorizing

What is undertheorizing the present participle and gerund of?
Undertheorizing is the present participle and gerund of undertheorize.

Words near undertheorizing in the dictionary

  1. undertexts
  2. undertheorised
  3. undertheorize
  4. undertheorized
  5. undertheorizes
  6. undertheorizing
  7. underthigh
  8. underthighs
  9. underthing
  10. underthings
  11. underthink

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