denotative
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The denotative meanings of these abbreviations vary over a wide range.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2013
The only way in which the term reality can ever become more than a blanket denotative term is through recourse to specific events in all their diversity and thatness.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
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 Boyd H. Bode
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 George Thibaut
Definitions are of three types, denotative, expository, scientific.
From How We Think by John Dewey
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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