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Vinony

conflate

verb

  1. to blow or fuse together
  2. confuse x for y
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kənˈfleɪt/ / /kɒnˈfleɪt/

adj

Etymology: Attested since 1541: from Latin cōnflātus, past passive participle of cōnflō (“fuse, kindle, blow together”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

  1. Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.

    “Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.”

noun

Etymology: Attested since 1541: from Latin cōnflātus, past passive participle of cōnflō (“fuse, kindle, blow together”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

  1. A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.

verb

Etymology: Attested since 1541: from Latin cōnflātus, past passive participle of cōnflō (“fuse, kindle, blow together”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

  1. To combine or mix together.
  2. To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.

    ““Bacon was Lord Chancellor of England and the first European to experiment with gunpowder.” — “No, you are conflating Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon.””

  3. 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.

    “But in reality, the order simply furthers the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies by continuing to conflate immigration issues with criminal ones.”

    “But again, this conflates global geographic variation with race, says Alan Goodman, a biological anthropologist at Hampshire College.”