Normative vs Descriptive - What's the difference?
normative | descriptive |
Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.
Conforming to a norm or norms.
Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.
Of or relating to description.
(grammar) Of an adjective, stating an attribute of the associated noun (as heavy'' in ''the heavy dictionary ).
(linguistics) Describing the structure, grammar, vocabulary and actual use of a language.
(science, philosophy) Describing and seeking to classify, as opposed to normative or prescriptive.
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Descriptive is a antonym of normative.
As adjectives the difference between normative and descriptive
is that normative is of or pertaining to a norm or standard while descriptive is of or relating to description.As a noun descriptive is
an adjective (or other descriptive word.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 * normativitydescriptive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}