associational

English edit

associational (comparative more associational, superlative most associational)

Of, pertaining to or deriving from association.
- 1940, Richard Wright, Native Son‎^[1], New York: Harper and Row, published 1966, Introduction, p. xxii:
  How could I create such complex and wide schemes of associational thought and feeling, such filigreed webs of dreams and politics, without being mistaken for a “smuggler of reaction,” “an ideological confusionist,” or “an individualistic and dangerous element”?
- 1988 October 7, Justin Hayford, “Communion and Confusion”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:
  Instead of making a point, Roth shows us a detail, but a detail packed with layers of associational meaning.

of, pertaining to or deriving from association