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distinctual

distinctual adjective: distinctive; serving to allow distinctions.

Adjective

distinctual (comparative more distinctual, superlative most distinctual)

  1. Distinctive; serving to allow distinctions.
    • 'In the normal instances of life,' he said in that complacently doctrinaire tone of voice with which he had once argued with Grigory Vasilyevich about religious faith, teasing him as he stood at Fyodor Pavlovich's table, 'in the normal instances of life, beating servants is indeed forbidden by the...1880, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
    • Thus, for example, the state that precedes the two distinctual states, being and nonbeing, can be termed "without-being" ( thus it follows that the term Mu, which is most often translated as "no-thing," would be "without-thing").1999, John L. Kundert-Gibbs, No-thing is Left to Tell, page 25

Forms of distinctual

comparativemore distinctual
superlativemost distinctual

Origin of distinctual

From distinct + -ual.

Questions about distinctual

What does distinctual mean?
Distinctual means distinctive; serving to allow distinctions.
What part of speech is distinctual?
Distinctual is an adjective.

Words near distinctual in the dictionary

  1. distinctly
  2. distinctness
  3. distinctnesses
  4. distinctor
  5. distinctors
  6. distinctual
  7. distinctually
  8. distincture
  9. Distington
  10. distingue
  11. distinguee

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