denotative

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The denotative meanings of these abbreviations vary over a wide range.

From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2013

Words are thus acknowledged to be denotative of themselves.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

Definitions are of three types, denotative, expository, scientific.

From How We Think by Dewey, John

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 Bode, Boyd H.

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