nonconnotative
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
non- + connotative
Adjective[edit]
nonconnotative (not comparable)
- Not connotative.
- 2012, Jeff Rice, Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network (page 160)
- 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 […]
- 2019, William Hasker, God, Time, and Knowledge (page 92)
- 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.
- 2012, Jeff Rice, Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network (page 160)