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Aspirational vs Categorical - What's the difference?

aspirational | categorical |

As adjectives the difference between aspirational and categorical

is that aspirational is being ambitious while categorical is absolute; having no exception.

As nouns the difference between aspirational and categorical

is that aspirational is a person with aspirations while categorical is (logic) a categorical proposition.

aspirational

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Being ambitious.
  • Desiring success.
  • (legal) expressing a hope or intention but not creating a legally binding obligation.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person with aspirations.

    • categorical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • absolute; having no exception
  • * '>citation
  • * 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:
    • Daytime interests are clearly not such far-reaching psychical sources of dreams as might have been expected from the categorical assertions that everyone continues to carry on his daily business in his dreams.
  • of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories

    • Synonyms

    * absolute, categoric, unconditional

    Antonyms

    * exceptional, conditional, hypothetical, relative

    Derived terms

    * acategorical * categorical imperative * categoricalness

    Related terms

    * categoricity

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (logic) A categorical proposition.