What does descriptionist mean?
Descriptionist means Synonym of descriptivist..
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/dəˈskɹɪpʃənəst/ · noun
Synonym of descriptivist..
The author of the Waverley novels is another fine example; but he clearly takes his highest rank as a descriptionist—the painter of effects and appearances rather than of facts and of causes.
Although he is a descriptionist, he is often more effective than Roberts or Lampman.
He was, on the other hand, the very opposite of a descriptionist in his physics, especially later in his career.
“Oh,” said one of my lunch companions, “you’re a descriptionist rather than a prescriptionist.”
In effect, they say "a plague on both your houses" to the two sides in the prescriptionist-descriptionist debate.
The problem with the descriptionist account of date-times is that it gives the wrong truth conditions to sentences like that in CAESAR.
Use descriptionist when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Descriptionist means Synonym of descriptivist..
Common synonyms include descriptivist.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The author of the Waverley novels is another fine example; but he clearly takes his highest rank as a descriptionist—the painter of effects and appearances rather than of facts and of causes.
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