categorical
English
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin catēgoricus + -al.[1] By surface analysis, category + -ical.
Pronunciation
edit- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌkætəˈɡɔɹɪk(ə)l/
Adjective
editcategorical (comparative more categorical, superlative most categorical)
- Absolute; having no exception.
- 1856, Robert Gordon Latham, Logic in the Application to Language[1]:
- We now see that they [propositions] are either conditional or unconditional, or, as the logicians say, hypothetical (conditional) or categorical (unconditional).
- 1900, Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey, The Interpretation of Dreams: Avon Books, page 74:
- Daytime interests are clearly not such far-reaching psychical sources of dreams as might have been expected from the categorical assertions that everyone continues to carry on his daily business in his dreams.
- Of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories.
Synonyms
edit- (absolute; having no exception): absolute, categoric, unconditional, categorial
Antonyms
edit- (antonym(s) of “absolute; having no exception”): exceptional, conditional, hypothetical, relative
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editabsolute; having no exception
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of, pertaining to, or using categories
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Noun
editcategorical (plural categoricals)
References
edit- ^ “categorical, adj. and n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.