Committal

Quick meaning: Committal is a noun meaning The act of entrusting something to someone.

Meaning

The act of entrusting something to someone.

More Meanings

1. The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
2. The act of perpetrating an offence.
3. The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.
4. Of or relating to a committee.
5. Of or relating to commitment.

Example Sentences

He points out that the former hypothesis is less committal epistemically, and he claims that nothing more committal is required to make sense of scientific method.

On reading the work, we have become impressed with this fact, and have several times wished that the author was more committal on the treatment of several diseases in which he himself must have had a large experience.

Notice also that the credibility of noncommittal observational beliefs will compare in a similar way with the credibility of more committal (or theoretical) observational beliefs, such as belief that addition of a base solution to an acid solution (to take the more committal, or theoretical, version of the noncommittal observational belief just mentioned).

Word Forms

• committals
• commital

Synonyms for committal

Depending on context, synonyms include commitment, consignment.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include consignment, commitment, admission, attendance, referral, appearance.

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