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Didactic
//daɪˈdæk.tɪk// adj, noun
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
"didactic poetry"
- 2 Excessively moralizing.
- 3 Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
Adjective
- 1 instructive (especially excessively) wordnet
Noun
- 1 A treatise on teaching or education. archaic
Etymology
Etymology 1
From French didactique, from Ancient Greek διδακτικός (didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”), from διδακτός (didaktós, “taught, learnt”), from διδάσκω (didáskō, “I teach, educate”). By surface analysis, didact + -ic.
Etymology 2
From French didactique, from Ancient Greek διδακτικός (didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”), from διδακτός (didaktós, “taught, learnt”), from διδάσκω (didáskō, “I teach, educate”). By surface analysis, didact + -ic.
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