Definiens

Quick meaning: Definiens is a noun meaning (semantics) The word or phrase that defines the definiendum in a definition.

Meaning

(semantics) The word or phrase that defines the definiendum in a definition.

Example Sentences

Yet such predicates will not in general even be interpreted over the domain of objects over which the definientia range.

In these definitions, then, there is only one part of the definiens, the form (e.g. being a human soul), which is prior to the kind and its matter.

Word Forms

• definientia

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include definiendum, definement, definition, definitization, metadefinition, determination.

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