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Ideographic vs Idiographic - What's the difference?

ideographic | idiographic |

As adjectives the difference between ideographic and idiographic

is that ideographic is pertaining to an ideograph or ideography while idiographic is of or pertaining to individuals.

ideographic

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Pertaining to an ideograph or ideography.

    • idiographic

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia idiographic) (-)
  • (psychology) of or pertaining to individuals.
  • * 1999 August 14, The Herald :
    • Dr Esterson's next book, The Leaves of Spring - a Study in the Dialectics of Madness, is an illuminating idiographic study, devoted for the major part to the painstaking, detailed study of a patient and her family, investigated and treated as the interacting elements of a unity.
  • Of or pertaining to idiography or to an idiograph.

    • Derived terms

    * idiographically