non-descriptive
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See also: nondescriptive
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
non- + descriptive
Adjective[edit]
non-descriptive (not comparable)
- Not descriptive; failing to provide a description.
- 1995, John Lyons, Linguistic Semantics[1]:
- When it comes to expressive (or socio-expressive) meaning – and this is the only kind of non-descriptive meaning that we will take into account here – there is no readily available and reasonably objective criterion which enables us to decide between identity and difference.