The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conflate \Con*flate"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conflated; p. pr. & vb. n. Conflating.] [L. conflatus, p. p. of conflare to blow together; con- + flare to blow.]
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To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.
The State-General, created and conflated by the passionate effort of the whole nation.
--Carlyle. to ignore distinctions between, by treating two or more distinguishable objects or ideas as one; to confuse.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: conflate)
Usage examples of "conflated".
The diamond district conflated greed and piety, fast commerce and duplicity.
Over the past two thousand years, thanks to the invective of the various churches and more recently of the scientific community, magic has had to lie hidden in the West, practised in secret, persecuted in public whenever the inquisitors got wind of it, and because of that persecution what should be an organized body of philosophical thought and spiritual practice has become maimed and garbled, conflated in the popular mind with superstition, devil worship, and the tricks and silly stories of con men and hucksters.
In what I am watching, Time is conflated, as indeed it must be in any work of art.