ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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.

Related Dictionary Tools

Sources & Attribution

FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.