ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Categorial

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Categorial is an adjective meaning categorical, absolute, without exception.

Meaning

categorical, absolute, without exception.

More Meanings

  1. categorical, pertaining to a category
  2. pertaining to categorial grammar

Example Sentences

So, there is considerable evidence in favour of drawing a categorial distinction between the preposition for and the complementiser for: they are different lexical items (i.e. words) belonging to different categories.
1990 : The urgency of feminism to establish a universal status for patriarchy in order to strengthen the appearance of feminism's own claims to be representative has occasionally motivated the shortcut to a categorial or fictive universality of the structures of domination, held to produce women's common subjugated experience. - Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include categorical, noncategorial, uncategorical, acategorical, unconditional, noncategorizable.

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