descriptionistic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "So the first argument results from the reconstructivistic attitude towards legal language and the second one from descriptionistic attitude."
- "Poincaré’s leadership in the antirealist “descriptionistic” movement is explored in Heilbron (1982)."
- "I must admit that I use—in a methodologically unencumbered way—methods developed in the mainstream of the descriptionistic analytical philosophy of language and within reconstructionism."
- "Descriptionistic approaches to poetical tropes go back to Aristotle (Poetics XI, 1457b), who considered metaphor as a kind of analogy assuming that, in the metaphor, the words pointing out a comparison (“as if”, “looks like”, etc.) are omitted, although they are implied."
Etymology
From description + -istic or descriptionist + -ic.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more descriptionistic (comparative)
most descriptionistic (superlative)