Sentential
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Sentential is an adjective meaning (linguistics, law, philosophy) Relating to a sentence.
Meaning
(linguistics, law, philosophy) Relating to a sentence.
More Meanings
- A portion of a sentence or utterance that could act on its own as a complete sentence.
Example Sentences
Near-synonym: clause
Furthermore, children demonstrated that they understood the mapping by elaborating phrasals to sententials, and reducing sententials to phrasals when imitating.
Scientific, moral, and penal laws are formally universal, sentential propositions. Austin noted the requirement that the commands or expression of desire be general. Han Feizi never restricts faˢᵗᵃⁿᵈᵃʳᵈˢ to either sententials or universal sententials. His account is notoriously about mingⁿᵃᵐᵉ and xingᵖᵘⁿⁱˢʰᵐᵉⁿᵗ.
Word Forms
- sententials
Synonyms for sentential
Depending on context, synonyms include clause.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sentencewise, prosentential, syntacticosemantic, semantological, grammaticosemantic, lingual.
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