denotative
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The denotative meanings of these abbreviations vary over a wide range.
From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2013
It finds that "reality" is a denotative term, a word used to designate indifferently everything that happens.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
To use the phraseology of Harvard and Radcliffe, the Sulphite is connotative, the Bromide denotative.
From Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use by Burgess, Gelett
The workings of my thought thus determine both its denotative and its connotative significance more fully.
From Meaning of Truth by James, William
Because the denotative power of all words is dependent on the being of Brahman.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George
Vocabulary lists containing denotative
Reading: Literature - High School
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Lesson 7
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Part 3 Literary Terms (Unit 3)
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