Descriptive vs Descriptivity - What's the difference?
descriptive | descriptivity |
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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The quality or state of being descriptive.
As nouns the difference between descriptive and descriptivity
is that descriptive is (grammar) an adjective (or other descriptive word) while descriptivity is the quality or state of being descriptive.As an adjective descriptive
is of or relating to description.descriptive
English
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.}}
