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Denotive

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Serving to denote something.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Serving to denote.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Serving to denote; denotative; specifically, denoting by means of arbitrary terms, or by terms which have no natural association with the idea expressed: opposed to connotive.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming

Word Usage

"The aborigines were at the time of discovery, and indeed most of them remain today, in the prescriptorial stage of culture, i.e., the stage in which ideas are crystallized, not by means of arbitrary symbols, but by means of arbitrary associations, (18) and in this stage names are connotive or descriptive, rather than denotive as in the scriptorial stage."

Equivalent

referential naming referent designative appellative extensional