To combine or mix together.
Used in a Sentence
conflating
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for conflating.
Editorial note
You're also conflating something like, eg, efforts to get around the Chinese firewall with people who want to use slurs.
Examples16
Definitions3
Parts of speech1
Quick take
To combine or mix together.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of conflating gathered in one view.
(by extension) To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
(by extension) To deliberately draw a false equivalence or association, typically in a tacit or implicit manner as propaganda and/or an intentional distortion or misrepresentation of the subject matter.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for conflating.
verb
To combine or mix together.
verb
(by extension) To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
verb
(by extension) To deliberately draw a false equivalence or association, typically in a tacit or implicit manner as propaganda and/or an intentional distortion or misrepresentation of the subject matter.
Example sentences
You're also conflating something like, eg, efforts to get around the Chinese firewall with people who want to use slurs.
Well, you're conflating various things here: > One Windows app, deployed everywhere with a focus on productivity and smart services.
Surprising number of people on this thread are conflating first mover advantage with moving fast.
That should help in preventing me from conflating the different use-cases of running a VPN.
Here I think there's a risk of conflating the outside-group/inside-group distinction we've been discussing with the adult/children distinction.
I don't like the conflating of implementations and languages, since it removes legitimacy of the alternate implementations.
I feel like a lot of the comments in this thread are conflating permissively licensed software with closed source software.
What I also dislike about articles like this is conflating tax increases and government spending cuts under one umbrella of 'austerity'.
Second, you're conflating copyleft with free and permissive with open.
That is conflating adoption rate with the total active users.
You're conflating brand position and hardware build quality with functionality.
I said that conflating deaths in nuclear accidents and deaths from nuclear accidents was.
Quote examples
That's true: it's essentially conflating "efficient" meaning in polynomial time with "efficient" in the colloquial sense.
So here this is applied as follows: conflating life with the process of gaining salvation through good works which in a Capitalist society translates into "game playing" a.k.a.
I think you may be conflating "small town" and "suburb" to some degree, when I wouldn't consider those things to be exactly the same.
I think you're conflating "can't" and "won't".
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use conflating in a sentence?
You're also conflating something like, eg, efforts to get around the Chinese firewall with people who want to use slurs.
What does conflating mean?
To combine or mix together.
What part of speech is conflating?
conflating is commonly used as verb.