contradistinguish en · VERB
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Italic *-teros Proto-Italic *komterosder. Proto-Italic *komterād Latin contrābor. English contra- English distinguish English contradistinguish From contra- + distinguish.
Meanings
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(transitive) To distinguish things by contrasting their different qualities.
A genuinely educative experience, then, one in which instruction is conveyed and ability increased, is contradistinguished from a routine activity on one hand, and a capricious activity on the other.
1916, John Dewey, Democracy and Education:Reason, therefore, here, as contradistinguished to faith, I take to be the discovery of the certainty or probability of such propositions or truths which the mind arrives at by deduction made from such ideas, which it has got by the use of its natural faculties ; viz. by sensation or reflection.
1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| contradistinguishing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| contradistinguishes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| contradistinguished | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| contradistinguished | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
Relateds
contradistinctively · contradistinction · contradistinctive
Translations (1)
el αντιδιαστέλλω (contrast and differentiate)