subsume
/səbˈsjuːm
/verb [with object]
Include or absorb (something) in something else: most of these phenomena can be subsumed under two broad categories...
- Teleological theories draw from the efforts of the individual agent to distinguish the real from the apparent good, and to harmonize conflicting impulses by subsuming them under a comprehensive conception of the good.
- It is a kind of enveloping void that subsumes the senses into a kind of frozen present.
- Three important elements are subsumed under the first branch of the test.
Derivatives
subsumable
- Individual and tribal morality might be subsumable under the morality of the nation.
- It also explores several conceptions of objectivity that are each either inapplicable to law or subsumable under at least one of the six conceptions just mentioned.
- The Graduate Certificate in Management is subsumable within the Graduate Diploma in Management, which is subsumable into the Master of Management.
subsumption
- One's own subsumption - any tool that allows people to think they are doing the right thing when buying hyper-commodified products from sites of mass-consumption needs to be attacked.
- Kierkegaard's injunction that we leap into faith should be taken less, as is normally done, as a demand for the subsumption of reason into the irrational, but as a call to show fidelity to your conviction.
- For some thinkers, places must resist total subsumption under the self.
Origin
Mid 16th century (in the sense 'subjoin, add'): from medieval Latin subsumere, from sub- 'from below' + sumere 'take'. The current sense dates from the early 19th century.