associational

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Etymology

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From association +‎ -al.

Adjective

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associational (comparative more associational, superlative most associational)

  1. Of, pertaining to or deriving from association.
    • 1940, Richard Wright, Native Son[1], New York: Harper and Row, published 1966, Introduction, p. xxii:
      How could I create such complex and wide schemes of associational thought and feeling, such filigreed webs of dreams and politics, without being mistaken for a “smuggler of reaction,” “an ideological confusionist,” or “an individualistic and dangerous element”?
    • 1988 October 7, Justin Hayford, “Communion and Confusion”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
      Instead of making a point, Roth shows us a detail, but a detail packed with layers of associational meaning.

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