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Privative vs Correlative - What's the difference?

privative | correlative |

As adjectives the difference between privative and correlative

is that privative is causing privation; depriving while correlative is .

As a noun privative

is something that causes privation or indicates an absence.

privative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing privation; depriving.
  • Consisting in the absence of something; negative.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • Privative blessings, blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty, and integrity.
  • (grammar) Indicating the absence of something.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that causes privation or indicates an absence.
  • ----

    correlative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • mutually related; corresponding
  • * '>citation
  • If we reinterpret these phenomena in terms of a consistently
    game-playing model of behavior, the need to distinguish be-
    tween primary and secondary gains disappears. The correla-
    tive
    necessity to estimate the relative significance of physio-
    logical needs and dammed-up impulses on the one hand, and
    of social and interpersonal factors on the other, also vanishes.
    Since needs and impulses cannot be said to exist in human
    social life without specified rules for dealing with them, in-
    stinctual needs cannot be considered solely in terms of biologi-
    cal rules, but must also be viewed in terms of their psycho-
    social significance—that is, as parts of the game.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Either of two correlative things.
  • (grammar) A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbal form, in Esperanto regularly formed, indicating 'which?', 'that', 'some', 'none', and 'every', as applied to people, things, type, place, manner, reason, time, or quantity, as: kiu'' ‘who’ (which person?), ''iu'' ‘someone’ (some person), ''tie'' ‘there’ (that place), '' ‘everywhere’ (all places), etc.