ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Nonconnotative

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Nonconnotative is an adjective meaning Not connotative.

Meaning

Not connotative.

Example Sentences

We will use the name, as the ancient Hebrews did, simply as a nonconnotative proper name referring to that individual who in fact was, and is, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Barthes describes the punctum (the nonconnotative or denotative meaning) of the photograph (or movie still) in such a manner; the detail relevant or not relevant to the image's overall meaning becomes the focus of an otherwise forgettable picture […]

Word Forms

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Related dictionary entries include nondenotative, nonassociative, nonentitative, nonsyntactic, noncondimental, nonconjugative.

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