differentia

Example Sentences

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Poetry is a species of Fine Art, its differentia being the use of metrical language as its instrument.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

“Animal” names the general class, and “reasoning” is the differentia which separates “man” from other “animals.”

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)

Disinterestedness not the differentia of aesthetic pleasure, 37 et seq.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George

Being without a serviceable differentia, he is unable to mark off the field of psychology from contiguous territory.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

The differentia is that part of a definition which names the difference between the term defined and the general class to which it belongs.

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)