descriptionist

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /dəˈskɹɪpʃənəst/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Synonym of descriptivist.
    — The author of the Waverley novels is another fine example; but he clearly takes his highest rank as a descriptionist—the painter of effects and appearances rather than of facts and of causes.
  2. One who subscribes to descriptionism.
形容词 adj.
  1. Descriptivist. not-comparable
    — In effect, they say "a plague on both your houses" to the two sides in the prescriptionist-descriptionist debate.
  2. Regarding utterances as primarily descriptive rather than as rigidly specifying a particular thing or kind of thing. not-comparable
    — The problem with the descriptionist account of date-times is that it gives the wrong truth conditions to sentences like that in CAESAR.
  3. Of or relating to descriptionism (theory of truth). not-comparable

词形变化

descriptionists plural

词汇关系

衍生词
descriptionistic
相关词
descriptionism

词源

词源 1
From description + -ist.
词源 2
From description + -ist.
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