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Generative vs Generant - What's the difference?

generative | generant |

As an adjective generative

is having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.

As a verb generant is

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generative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
  • * That generative particle. — Bentley
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  • Of course, structures like those associated with (36) and (37) constitute only a tiny subset of the infinite set of well-formed sentence structures found in English. We can increase the Generative Capacity of our grammar ( = the set of structures which it generates) either by expanding the Lexicon on the one hand, or by expanding the Categorial Rules (i.e. Phrase Structure Rules) on the other.

    Synonyms

    * creative

    Antonyms

    * annihilative

    generant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • generative; producing
  • (geometry) acting as a generant.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which generates.
  • (Glanvill)
  • (geometry) A generatrix.
  • (Webster 1913) ----