non-descriptive

See also: nondescriptive

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

non- + descriptive

Adjective

non-descriptive (not comparable)

  1. Not descriptive; failing to provide a description.
    • 1995, John Lyons, Linguistic Semantics:
      When it comes to expressive (or socio-expressive) meaning – and this is the only kind of non-descriptive meaning that we will take into account here – there is no readily available and reasonably objective criterion which enables us to decide between identity and difference.

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