Non-descriptive
Alternative forms
Origin
- + non + descriptive
Full definition of non-descriptive
Adjective
non-descriptive
- Not descriptive.
- 1995, John Lyons, Linguistic Semantics, When it comes to expressive (or socio-expressive) meaning – and this is the only kind of non-descriptive meaning that we will take into account here – there is no readily available and reasonably objective criterion which enables us to decide between identity and difference.