Didactic vs Teaching - What's the difference?
didactic | teaching |
Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
* Macaulay
Excessively moralizing.
(medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
As nouns the difference between didactic and teaching
is that didactic is a treatise on teaching or education while teaching is something taught by a religious or philosophical authority.As an adjective didactic
is instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry.As a verb teaching is
present participle of lang=en.didactic
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Alternative forms
* didactick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The finest didactic poem in any language.
