noun. the act of formulating or making a concept of something.

noun. the act of conceptualising, or something conceptualised

noun. an elaborated concept

noun. inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally

"Although the latter is of more relevance in mainly philosophical processes, it and the former do a very good job of highlighting the potential traps involved with slicing reality up into discrete sections, a cognitive function often referred to as 'conceptualisation', and confusing these conceptual divisions as reflective of actual 'reality'."

desertification  patchup  

conceptualization  formularising  formularizing  formulation