Abstractive vs Descriptive - What's the difference?
abstractive | descriptive |
Having an abstracting nature or tendency; tending to separate; tending to be withdrawn.
Derived by abstraction; belonging to abstraction.
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Of or relating to description.
(grammar) Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy'' in ''the heavy dictionary ).
(linguistics) Describing the structure, grammar, vocabulary and actual use of a language.
(science, philosophy) Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive.
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As adjectives the difference between abstractive and descriptive
is that abstractive is having an abstracting nature or tendency; tending to separate; tending to be withdrawn while descriptive is of or relating to description.As a noun descriptive is
(grammar) an adjective (or other descriptive word).abstractive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)References
descriptive
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}