non-descriptive

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English

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"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."

From non- + descriptive.

nondescriptive (alternative)

non-descriptively

descriptive

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