Descriptionist
/dəˈskɹɪpʃənəst/ adj, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Synonym of descriptivist.
"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."
- 2 One who subscribes to descriptionism.
Adjective
- 1 Descriptivist. not-comparable
"In effect, they say "a plague on both your houses" to the two sides in the prescriptionist-descriptionist debate."
- 2 Regarding utterances as primarily descriptive rather than as rigidly specifying a particular thing or kind of thing. not-comparable
"The problem with the descriptionist account of date-times is that it gives the wrong truth conditions to sentences like that in CAESAR."
- 3 Of or relating to descriptionism (theory of truth). not-comparable
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More examples"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."
Etymology
From description + -ist.