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Didactical vs Didactic - What's the difference?

didactical | didactic | Derived terms |

Didactic is a derived term of didactical.



As adjectives the difference between didactical and didactic

is that didactical is didactic while didactic is instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry.

As a noun didactic is

a treatise on teaching or education.

didactical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • didactic

    • Related terms

    * didactically

    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.