Conflate Definition

kən-flāt
conflated, conflates, conflating
verb
conflated, conflates, conflating
To bring together; meld or fuse.
American Heritage
To combine or mix (two variant readings into a single text, etc.)
Webster's New World
To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate; to treat as equivalent.
Wiktionary

To mix together different elements.

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Synonyms:
adjective
(biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
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noun
(biblical criticism) A conflate text.
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Origin of Conflate

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

    From Wiktionary

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

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

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.

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

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

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Words Starting With

CCOCON

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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conflate

Words Starting With C and Ending With E

Starts With C & Ends With EStarts With CO & Ends With EStarts With C & Ends With TE

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With C8 Letter Words Ending With E