Definitions

nomothetic

[nom-uh-thet-ik] / ˌnɒm əˈθɛt ɪk /

ADJECTIVE

legislative

Synonyms

STRONGEST

congressional parliamentary senatorial

WEAK

decreeing enacting jurisdictive lawgiving legislational legislatorial nomistic ordaining parliamentarian statute-making synodical

Example Sentences

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“The nomothetic approach takes precedence, while the detailed study of an individual patient is marginalized as trivia.”

From New York Times

But Berlin noted that knowledge can be nomothetic or idiographic.

From Scientific American