nonconnotative

English

Alternative forms

• non-connotative

Etymology

From non- +‎ connotative.

Adjective

nonconnotative (not comparable)

1. 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.