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Assertive vs Categorical - What's the difference?

assertive | categorical |

As adjectives the difference between assertive and categorical

is that assertive is boldly self-assured; confident without being aggressive while categorical is absolute; having no exception.

As a noun categorical is

(logic) a categorical proposition.

assertive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • boldly self-assured; confident without being aggressive

    • Derived terms

    * assertiveness

    categorical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • absolute; having no exception
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  • * 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.