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Denotative

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    That denotes or names; designative.

    "There was still no concept of language (arithmetical symbolism, perhaps, is not a language, is not denotative in the same sense as words)."

  2. 2
    Specific to the primary meaning of a term.
Adjective
  1. 1
    having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming wordnet
  2. 2
    in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term wordnet

Etymology

From Latin dēnotātus + -ive. By surface analysis, denote + -ative.

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