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Didactic vs Socratic - What's the difference?

didactic | socratic |

As adjectives the difference between didactic and socratic

is that didactic is didactic while socratic is of or characteristic of the philosopher socrates or his philosophical methods and/or views.

As a noun socratic is

a follower of socrates.

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.
  • socratic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophical methods and/or views.
  • Derived terms

    * Socratic method

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A follower of Socrates.
  • Anagrams

    * English eponyms