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conflation
con·flate C0562800 (kən-flāt′)tr.v. con·flat·ed, con·flat·ing, con·flates 1. To bring together; meld or fuse: "The problems [with the biopic] include ... dates moved around, lovers deleted, many characters conflated into one" (Ty Burr).2. To combine (two variant texts, for example) into one whole.3. To fail to distinguish between; confuse. See Usage Note below.
[Latin cōnflāre, cōnflāt- : com-, com- + flāre, to blow; see bhlē- in Indo-European roots.]
con·fla′tion n.Usage Note: Traditionally, conflate means "To bring together; meld or fuse," as in the sentence I have trouble differentiating Jane Austen's heroines; I realized I had conflated Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse into a single character in my mind. In our 2015 survey, 87 percent of the Usage Panelists accepted this traditional usage. Recently, a new sense for conflate has emerged, meaning "To mistake one thing for another," as if it were a synonym for confuse. In 2015, our usage panelists found this new sense to be marginally acceptable, with 55 percent accepting the sentence People often conflate the national debt with the federal deficit; when the senator talked about reducing the debt, he was actually referring to the deficit.con•fla•tion (kənˈfleɪ ʃən)
n. 1. the process or result of fusing items into one entity; fusion; amalgamation. 2. a text formed by combining two variant texts. [1400–50; late Middle English < Late Latin] Translationsconflation
conflation (database)Combining or blending of two or more versions of atext; confusion or mixing up. Conflation algorithms areused in databases.
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