Normative vs Prescriptive - What's the difference?
normative | prescriptive | Hyponyms |
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 prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.
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Prescriptive is a hyponym of normative.
Prescriptive is a antonym of normative.
Prescriptive is a synonym of normative.
As adjectives the difference between normative and prescriptive
is that normative is of or pertaining to a norm or standard while prescriptive is of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.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 * normativityprescriptive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- For one thing, spoken language tends to be less subjected to prescriptive
pressures than written language, and hence is a less artificial medium of com-
munication (written language is often a kind of 'censored' version of spoken
language). [...]
