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Diacritical

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Capable of distinguishing or of making a distinction.
  2. 2
    Of, pertaining to, or serving as a diacritic.

    "The reduplicated forms and the fineness of the diacritical strokes, render his book troublesome to the reader"

Adjective
  1. 1
    capable of distinguishing wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of diacritical mark (adnoun equivalent).

    "This is often the case when diacriticals are written at the end of the word - the last character ends, but there is still some ink in the original writing order that should have been used up in the course of processing the various t's, i's, and apostrophes in the body of the word."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From diacritic + -al.

Etymology 2

From diacritic + -al.

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