Definition of Descriptiveness. Meaning of Descriptiveness. Synonyms of Descriptiveness

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Definition of Descriptiveness

Descriptiveness
Descriptive De*scrip"tive, a. [L. descriptivus: cf. F. descriptif.] Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age. Descriptive anatomy, that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures. Descriptive geometry, that branch of geometry. which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes. --Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) -- De*scrip"tive*ly, adv. -- De*scrip"tive*ness, n.

Meaning of Descriptiveness from wikipedia

- continuum, with "inherently distinctive" marks at one end, "generic" and "descriptive" marks with no distinctive character at the other end, and "suggestive"...
- A descriptive statistic (in the count noun sense) is a summary statistic that quantitatively describes or summarizes features from a collection of information...
- Earlier editions were called Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical, Anatomy of the Human Body and Gray's Anatomy: Descriptive and Applied, but the book's name...
- Descriptive research is used to describe characteristics of a po****tion or phenomenon being studied. It does not answer questions about how/when/why...
- Descriptive geometry is the branch of geometry which allows the representation of three-dimensional objects in two dimensions by using a specific set...
- Descriptive notation is a chess notation system based on abbreviated natural language. Its distinctive features are that it refers to files by the piece...
- publications until the 1980s. Similar descriptive systems were in use in Spain and France. A few players still use descriptive notation, but it is no longer recognized...
- Descriptive poetics is an analytic approach within literary studies. While the concept of poetics goes back to Aristotle, the term "descriptive poetics"...
- In the study of language, description or descriptive linguistics is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is actually used (or...
- Descriptive botanical names are scientific names of groups of plants that are irregular, not being derived systematically from the name of a type genus...