Normative vs Formative - What's the difference?
normative | formative |
Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.
Conforming to a norm or norms.
Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.
Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
Capable of forming something.
(biology) Capable of producing new tissue.
(grammar) Pertaining to the inflection of words.
As adjectives the difference between normative and formative
is that normative is of or pertaining to a norm or standard while formative is of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.As a noun formative is
a language unit that has morphological function.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 * normativityformative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- My formative years were spent in an inner city.