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nonconnotative

nonconnotative adjective: not connotative.

Adjective

nonconnotative (not comparable)

  1. Not connotative.
    • Barthes describes the punctum (the nonconnotative or denotative meaning) of the photograph (or movie still) in such a manner; the detail relevant or not relevant to the image's overall meaning becomes the focus of an otherwise forgettable picture […]2012, Jeff Rice, Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network, page 160
    • We will use the name, as the ancient Hebrews did, simply as a nonconnotative proper name referring to that individual who in fact was, and is, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.2019, William Hasker, God, Time, and Knowledge, page 92

Forms of nonconnotative

alternative formnon-connotative

Origin of nonconnotative

From non- + connotative.

Questions about nonconnotative

What does nonconnotative mean?
Nonconnotative means not connotative.
What part of speech is nonconnotative?
Nonconnotative is an adjective.

Words near nonconnotative in the dictionary

  1. nonconnected
  2. nonconnection
  3. nonconnections
  4. nonconnective
  5. nonconnivance
  6. nonconnotative
  7. nonconnubial
  8. nonconsanguineous
  9. nonconsanguinity
  10. nonconsanguinous
  11. nonconscientious

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