Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The blowing of two or more musical instruments together.
- n. A melting or casting of metal.
- n. In diplomatics: An inadvertent combination of two readings of the same passage, so as to produce a new reading different from either.
- n. A reading which has thus originated.
Wiktionary
- n. countable A blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
- n. countable A blend or fusion, especially a composite reading or text formed by combining the material of two or more texts into a single text.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
- n. a fusing together; merger of two or more things or ideas into one.
Examples
“Semantics can often be a distraction, but in this case, the conflation is at least in part due to Behe's own voluntary participation in the Dover trial.”
“I'm so irritated that this conflation is definitely going to happen again and the thread will go down the toilet.”
“This type of conflation is pervasive in ID circuits.”
“Unfortunately that conflation is common amongst those less versed in the relevant genres since the excusatory symbolic formulation, by nature, rips off the explicatory works, simulating authenticity by simply copying from the original.”
“The conflation is of his own doing when they scratched out "Creator" throughout Of Pandas and People and replaced it with "Intelligent Designer".”
“For one article after the next to bolster that conflation is so journalistically irresponsible that it is hard to put into words.”
“This conflation is really unfortunate, because I set the bar pretty low for someone to be a public intellectual.”
“I agree, but the simple fact is that, for the vast majority of people, the conflation is a natural one, because, like so many other elements, D&D presumes a certain degree of background knowledge by its players that's increasingly no longer in evidence.”
“Oddly, neither attacks Lakoff at what would seem to be his central weak point, namely his conflation of politics and parenting – identifying "conservative" values with "the strict father" and "liberal" values with the "nurturant parent.”
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“Nous voyons le monde du point de vue de Michael Beard et obtenons des bribes d'informations sur sa "conflation" et sur la façon dont cette théorie permettra de sauver le monde grâce à l'utilisation d'une énergie bon marché obtenue au moyen d'un procédé de photosynthèse artificielle, mais tout cela est facile à comprendre.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘conflation’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Specificity
Words that have with subtly different meanings from other words.
vestibule, commoditize, commodify, monetize, corroborate, mezzanine, apposite, irony, calefacient, maxim, pandiculate, rarefaction and 45 more...
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My Good Words
robust, seeth, uncanny, earnest, palpate, belabor, minx, plaintive, endemic, contingent, henceforth, perfunctory and 92 more...
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Consider the Lobster
By David Foster Wallace
percussive, discursive, lugubrious, docent, assiduously, berm, wag, bonmot, imbroglio, telegraph, fissile, rube and 220 more...
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Inspiring eloquence
peripatetic, prevaricate, contrapuntal, defenestration, incontrovertible, facetious, curmudgeonly, assuaged, dichotomy, peccadillos, monopsony, coda and 146 more...
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Into the mix
A medley of mixtures, mostly ones where the constituents are still distinct. I tagged kinds of stew.
mixture, commixture, admixture, intermixture, intermingling, commingling, mingling, marriage, union, integration, syncretion, permutation and 129 more...
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Words
apoplectic, absolve, accentuate, accost, acrimony, adjudicate, adulate, affront, agrarian, alacrity, ambivalence, ascetic and 120 more...
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English technicalities
conflation, epithet, denouement, prolepsis, trivium, privative, tautology, syllepsis, pleonasm, zeugma, synecdoche, apophasis and 13 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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words of merge and emerge
merge, emerging, immerse, submerge, merganser, mesh, mustard, deep, depth, dip, python, typhon and 80 more...
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Unitegration
Wholeness.
agathocacological, subsume, commix, milieu, comity, multivious, symphily, sobornost, myselves, coalescence, conglomerat, amalgam and 75 more...
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Magical words
analemmatic, proleptic, panoply, efficacious, conflation, conglomeration, paradigm, prelapsarian, phenomenology, solipsism, panentheism, dialetheism and 2 more...
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Tip of my tongue
I tend to find myself searching for these words.
insinuate, schwag, coquette, mezzanine, affront, tacit, tantamount, nascent, wisteria, assuage, epistolary, impinge and 43 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for conflation.
slumry And, as I suspected, this word goes way back with the English language to late Middle English (according to Random House). Why let the usurpers usurp? Jun 14, 2007
slumry Contrariwise, I like conflation. Not only do I find it useful, but I like my mental image of two inflated balloons being squished together as one. . .there is such a tension. . .can they survive? Jun 14, 2007