differentialize

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verb

Synonym of differentiate.

Scrabble 31

Meanings

verbdifferentialize (third-person singular simple present differentializes, present participle differentializing, simple past and past participle differentialized)

present singular third person differentializes · participle present differentializing · participle past differentialized · past differentialized

  1. rareSynonym of differentiate.

    By taking a false analogy—that of a magnetic needle—he had distorted light into two poles, and thus (no less than had formerly been done) had sought to explain colours by differentializing the Unchangeable and Untouchable.

    1836, Sarah Austin, Goethe and His Contemporaries
    1 more example

    Manifold as are the disorders and diseases of the organs which are more or less concerned in enabling mankind to draw the “breath of life,” it is no intention of mine to differentialize them, and to apportion to each their relative importance.

    1876, J[oseph] H[enry] Shorthouse, “Diseases and Disorders of the Breathing Apparatus”, in The Common Sense of Medicine, 3rd edition, London: A. H. Baily & Co., page 7

    Synonyms: differentiate, discriminate, distinguish

Synonyms & antonyms

verbSynonym of differentiate.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  3. Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
  4. Proto-Italic*dis-
  5. Latindis-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*bʰer-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*bʰéreti
  8. Proto-Italic*ferō
  9. Latinferō
  10. Latindifferō
  11. Latindifferēns
  12. Latindifferentia
  13. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  14. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  15. Latindifferentiāli
  16. Englishdifferential
  17. Englishdifferentialize

From differential + -ize.

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Chicago

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