descriptionist
/dəˈskɹɪpʃənəst/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of descriptivist.
noun
One who subscribes to descriptionism.
adj
adj
Regarding utterances as primarily descriptive rather than as rigidly specifying a particular thing or kind of thing.
adj
Of or relating to descriptionism (theory of truth).
Example Sentences
- "The author of the Waverley novels is another fine example; but he clearly takes his highest rank as a descriptionist—the painter of effects and appearances rather than of facts and of causes."
- "Although he is a descriptionist, he is often more effective than Roberts or Lampman."
- "He was, on the other hand, the very opposite of a descriptionist in his physics, especially later in his career."
- "“Oh,” said one of my lunch companions, “you’re a descriptionist rather than a prescriptionist.”"
- "In effect, they say "a plague on both your houses" to the two sides in the prescriptionist-descriptionist debate."
- "The problem with the descriptionist account of date-times is that it gives the wrong truth conditions to sentences like that in CAESAR."
Etymology
From description + -ist.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dəˈskɹɪpʃənəst/