contentual
contentual adjective: relating to content (as apposed to context).
Adjective
contentual (not comparable)
- 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
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