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Discursive vs Nondiscursive - What's the difference?

discursive | nondiscursive |

As adjectives the difference between discursive and nondiscursive

is that discursive is tending to digress from the main point; rambling while nondiscursive is not discursive.

discursive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of speech or writing) Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.
  • *
    • This means, at times, long and perhaps overly discursive discussions of other taxa.
  • (philosophy) Using reason and argument rather than intuition.

    • Derived terms

    * counterdiscursive

    See also

    * discourse ----

    nondiscursive

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not discursive.
  • * '>citation
    • This viewpoint is especially relevant to the interpretation of
    such things as the dance, music, religious ritual, and the
    representative arts. In all of these, one person can enter into a
    significant relationship with another by means of a nondiscur-
    sive     sign system. Using a pharmaceutical analogy, it is as if the
    language—dance, art, etc.—were the vehicle in which the
    active ingredient—human contact—is suspended and con-
    tained. Many things that people do together have mainly this
    function, whether it be playing tennis, going hunting with a
    friend, or attending a scientific meeting.