Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

categorial

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.39 in modern English

Syllables: cat-e-go-ri-al
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

categorical, absolute, without exception

adj

categorical, pertaining to a category

adj

pertaining to categorial grammar

Example Sentences

"1990 : The urgency of feminism to establish a universal status for patriarchy in order to strengthen the appearance of feminism's own claims to be representative has occasionally motivated the shortcut to a categorial or fictive universality of the structures of domination, held to produce women's common subjugated experience. - Gender Trouble by Judith Butler"
"So, there is considerable evidence in favour of drawing a categorial distinction between the preposition for and the complementiser for: they are different lexical items (i.e. words) belonging to different categories."

Inflected Forms

more categorial (comparative) most categorial (superlative)

Derived Forms

categorially noncategorial precategorial subcategorial transcategorial

Rhymes With

memorial editorial territorial tutorial gubernatorial pictorial equatorial senatorial dictatorial directorial boreal combinatorial

Questions

What does categorial mean?: categorical, absolute, without exception

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