Conflate definition

kən-flāt
conflated conflates conflating
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To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate; to treat as equivalent.
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To combine (two variant texts, for example) into one whole.
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To bring together; meld or fuse.
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To combine or mix (two variant readings into a single text, etc.)
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To bring things together and fuse them into a single entity.
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To conflate is to combine two or more things into one.

When you blend two or more different colors together, this is an example of a time when you conflate.

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To mix together different elements.
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(biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
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(biblical criticism) A conflate text.
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Origin of conflate

  • Latin cōnflāre cōnflāt- com- com- flāre to blow bhlē- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • 1541: from Latin cōnflātus, from cōnflō (“fuse, melt, or blow together”); cōn (“with, together”) + flō (“blow”).

    From Wiktionary

Conflate Sentence Examples

  • It is vital that we do not conflate today with tomorrow.

  • To conflate the two is to commit a category mistake (Ryle, 1949 ).

  • The concern of the essays in Featherstone's volume is to disentangle the various threads that such questions invariably conflate.

  • But you also conflate two sense of " reality " .

  • They conflate pleasurable responses of a sexually titillating nature and other agreeably sensuous pleasures with the pleasurable response evoked by beauty.

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