Informative vs Didactic - What's the difference?
informative | didactic |
Providing information; especially , providing useful or interesting information.
(in standards and specifications) Not specifying requirements, but merely providing information.
Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
* Macaulay
Excessively moralizing.
(medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
As adjectives the difference between informative and didactic
is that informative is providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information while didactic is instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry.As a noun didactic is
a treatise on teaching or education.informative
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Adjective
(en adjective)- I read a very informative newspaper article on that subject last week.
Synonyms
* (providing information) informatory, instructiveAntonyms
* (providing information) uninformative * (not specifying requirements) normativedidactic
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Alternative forms
* didactick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The finest didactic poem in any language.
