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Didactic vs Nondidactic - What's the difference?

didactic | nondidactic |

As adjectives the difference between didactic and nondidactic

is that didactic is instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry while nondidactic is not didactic.

As a noun didactic

is a treatise on teaching or education.

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.

    • nondidactic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not didactic.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2000, date=December 22, author=Nick Green, title=The Emperor and the Nightingale, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=And the informality of this City Lit production allows the cast to navigate some complex themes--including death and renewal--in a refreshingly nondidactic way. }}

    Derived terms

    *nondidactically