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Didactic vs Mathetic - What's the difference?

didactic | mathetic |

didactic

English

Alternative forms

* didactick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
  • * Macaulay
    • The finest didactic poem in any language.
  • Excessively moralizing.
  • (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

    • Derived terms

    * didact * didactical * didactically * didacticism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.

    • mathetic

    Not English

    Mathetic has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

    English words similar to 'mathetic':

    mitotic, methodic, myotatic, metotic