Normative vs Canonical - What's the difference?
normative | canonical |
Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.
Conforming to a norm or norms.
Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.
Present in a canon, religious or otherwise.
According to recognised or orthodox rules.
Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner.
Prototypical.
(religion) In conformity with canon law.
(music) In the form of a canon.
(religion) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter
(mathematics, computing) In canonical form.
(mathematics) Distinguished among entities of its kind, so that it can be picked out in a way that does not depend on any arbitrary choices.
(Roman Catholicism) The formal robes of a priest
* {{quote-book, year=1857, author=Various, title=The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He, good man, could make but little of his solitary friend, and must many a time have been startled out of his canonicals by the strange, alien speeches which he heard. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1915, author=, title=The Research Magnificent, chapter=, edition=
, passage=When I was a boy I was a passionate atheist, I defied God, and so far as God is the mere sanction of social traditions and pressures, a mere dressing up of the crowd's will in canonicals , I do still deny him and repudiate him. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1891, author=, title=The White Lady of Hazelwood, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Mr Altham rose, as in duty bound, in honour to a priest, and a priest who, as he dimly discerned by his canonicals , was not altogether a common one. }}
As adjectives the difference between normative and canonical
is that normative is of or pertaining to a norm or standard while canonical is present in a canon, religious or otherwise.As a noun canonical is
the formal robes of a priest.normative
English
(wikipedia normative)Adjective
(en adjective)- normative behaviour
- normative grammar
Hyponyms
* prescriptive * proscriptiveDerived terms
* normative economics * normative ethics * normative grammar * normatively * normativeness * normative science * normative system * normativist * normativitycanonical
English
(wikipedia canonical)Adjective
(en adjective)- The is a canonical New Testament book.
- The men played golf in the most canonical way, with no local rules.
- the reduction of a linear substitution to its canonical form
Synonyms
* (mathematics) naturalAntonyms
* (scripture) apocryphalDerived terms
* canonicallyNoun
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