Descriptionistic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Descriptionistic is an adjective meaning Synonym of descriptionist.
Meaning
Synonym of descriptionist.
Example Sentences
Poincaré’s leadership in the antirealist “descriptionistic” movement is explored in Heilbron (1982).
So the first argument results from the reconstructivistic attitude towards legal language and the second one from descriptionistic attitude.
I must admit that I use—in a methodologically unencumbered way—methods developed in the mainstream of the descriptionistic analytical philosophy of language and within reconstructionism.
Descriptionistic approaches to poetical tropes go back to Aristotle (Poetics XI, 1457b), who considered metaphor as a kind of analogy assuming that, in the metaphor, the words pointing out a comparison (“as if”, “looks like”, etc.) are omitted, although they are implied.
Synonyms for descriptionistic
Depending on context, synonyms include descriptionist.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include descriptionist, descriptivistic, descriptory, descriptional, descriptivist, descriptive.
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