Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

enumerative en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English enumerate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English enumerative From enumerate + -ive.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of, pertaining to or based on enumeration
    • After all, “physical object” hardly provides the clearly demarcated enumerative conditions that the sortal dependency thesis seems to require. 2008 January 8, John E. Sarnecki, “Sortals for Dummies”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:

Deriveds

enumerative definition · enumeratively · nonenumerative