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contentual

contentual adjective: relating to content (as apposed to context).

Adjective

contentual (not comparable)

  1. Relating to content (as apposed to context).
    • I shall wish, then, to indicate in a general way what I conceive to be the true and valuable significance of the Self-realization principle; namely, that it is essentially an ideal of ethical method, and not a contentual or descriptive ideal from which either the details or the generalities of...1904, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, The Logic of Self-realization
    • Presented evidence, appearance, sense experience, in itself, enjoys the rank of content of reality. That is, it claims to be real and deserves to be taken as such so long as proof to the contrary is wanting. I shall call this kind of knowledge 'contentual'; if I may be permitted to coin a word.1915, Evelyn Board Raynolds, The Realistic Concept of Independence, page 19

Origin of contentual

From content + -ual.

Words formed from contentual

Questions about contentual

What does contentual mean?
Contentual means relating to content (as apposed to context).
What part of speech is contentual?
Contentual is an adjective.

Words near contentual in the dictionary

  1. contentments
  2. contentness
  3. contents
  4. contents insurance
  5. contentsome
  6. contentual
  7. contentually
  8. contentwise
  9. conterminable
  10. conterminal
  11. conterminant

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