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Didactic vs Doctrinal - What's the difference?

didactic | doctrinal |

As adjectives the difference between didactic and doctrinal

is that didactic is didactic while doctrinal is of, relating to, involving, belonging to or concerning a doctrine.

As a noun doctrinal is

a matter of doctrine, or system of doctrines.

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.

    • doctrinal

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Of, relating to, involving, belonging to or concerning a doctrine.
  • (obsolete) Didactic.
  • * Hooker
    • The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument.

    Related terms

    * docent * docile * doctor * doctorate * doctrinaire * doctrine * document * indoctrinate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A matter of doctrine, or system of doctrines.
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