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Interactive vs Interactional - What's the difference?

interactive | interactional | see also |

As adjectives the difference between interactive and interactional

is that interactive is acting with each other while interactional is of, pertaining to, or featuring interaction.

As a noun interactive

is a feature (as in a museum) that can be interacted with.

interactive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Acting with each other.
    • Two interactive systems.
  • (computer science) Responding to the user.
    • Interactive user interface

    Derived terms

    * interaction * interactivity

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A feature (as in a museum) that can be interacted with.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 26, author=Laurel Graeber, title=Spare Times: For Children, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The show includes computer interactives , animation, models and live parakeets (for an exercise in species identification). }} ----

    interactional

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, or featuring interaction.
  • * 2001 , Gisle Andersen, Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation (page 69)
    • The interactional function of pragmatic markers can be associated with social functions of language, such as the interlocutors' mutual recognition of the conversational relationship and the expression of solidarity and politeness.

    See also

    * interactive

    Anagrams

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