underivative

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ derivative

Adjective[edit]

underivative (comparative more underivative, superlative most underivative)

  1. Not derivative.
    • 1893, Richard Falckenberg, History Of Modern Philosophy[1]:
      The ideas of substance and of the attributes are conceived through themselves, or immediately (intuitively) cognized; they are underivative, original, self-evident ideas.