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Deliberative vs Adaptive - What's the difference?

deliberative | adaptive |

As adjectives the difference between deliberative and adaptive

is that deliberative is that deliberates, considers carefully while adaptive is of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.

As a noun deliberative

is a discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.

deliberative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That deliberates, considers carefully.
  • * Bancroft
    • a consummate work of deliberative wisdom
  • * Hallam
    • The court of jurisdiction is to be distinguished from the deliberative body, the advisers of the crown.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Steven Sloman , title=The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , volume=100, issue=1, page=74 , magazine= citation , passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A discourse in which a question is discussed, or weighed and examined.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • A kind of rhetoric employed in proving a thing and convincing others of its truth, in order to persuade them to adopt it.
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    adaptive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
  • * {{quote-book, author=Charles Darwin, title=, year=1859
    • , passage=The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent.}}
  • * {{quote-book, author=C. Lloyd Morgan, title=, year=1896
    • , passage=That variation of germinal origin is a fact in organic nature is admitted on all hands, and that some variations are adaptive is also unquestioned.}}
  • Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
  • (psychology) Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society.

    • Synonyms

    * (capable of being adapted) adaptable * adaptative

    Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * adaptively * adaptiveness * adaptivity * adaptive beamformer * adaptive behaviour * adaptive bridge * adaptive clothing * adaptive coding * adaptive communications * adaptive compression * adaptive enzyme * adaptive equalization * adaptive expectations * adaptive filter * adaptive hypertrophy * adaptive management * adaptive modulation * adaptive optics * adaptive predictive coding * adaptive radiation * adaptive resonance * adaptive reuse * adaptive routing * adaptive switching * adaptive system * adaptive technology * adaptive value * adaptive zone

    Related terms

    * adapt * adaptable * adaptative * adaptly * adaptorial

    References

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