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Discussive vs Discursive - What's the difference?

discussive | discursive |

As adjectives the difference between discussive and discursive

is that discussive is able or tending to discuss, or disperse, tumors or coagulated matter while discursive is tending to digress from the main point; rambling.

As a noun discussive

is a medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humours; a discutient.

discussive

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (medicine, dated) A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humours; a discutient.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (medicine, dated) Able or tending to discuss, or disperse, tumors or coagulated matter.
  • (dated) Doubt-dispelling; decisive.
  • * Hopkins
    • A kind of peremptory and discussive voice.
    (Webster 1913)

    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 ----