Cumulative vs Concessive - What's the difference?
cumulative | concessive |
Incorporating all data up to the present
That is formed by accumulation of successive additions
* Francis Bacon
* Trench
That tends to accumulate
(finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid
(grammar) A phrase or clause that acts as a concession, such as "even if" or "although".
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As adjectives the difference between cumulative and concessive
is that cumulative is incorporating all data up to the present while concessive is of, pertaining to, or being a concession; conceding.As a noun concessive is
a phrase or clause that acts as a concession, such as "even if" or "although".cumulative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative , not original.
- The argument is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative .