THEORISATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The production or use of theories

Synonyms:

theorisation; theorization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("theorisation" is a kind of...):

conjecture (reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "theorisation"):

ideology (imaginary or visionary theorization)

abstraction; generalisation; generalization (the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances)

Derivation:

theorise (to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds)