connotative
[kon-uh-tey-tiv, kuh-noh-tuh-]
- (of a word or expression) signifying or suggestive of an associative or secondary meaning in addition to the primary meaning: A connotative word such as “steely” would never be used when referring to a woman.
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Proper names, on the other hand, though concrete, are not connotative.
Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of LogicWilliam Stebbing
This is still more the case in propositions with connotative subjects.
Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of LogicWilliam Stebbing
The collective name is then "connotative" of the common characters of the collection.
Logic, Inductive and DeductiveWilliam Minto
Known sometimes as the Connotative or the Denotative-Connotative view.
Logic, Inductive and DeductiveWilliam Minto
It has been seen that all concrete general names are connotative.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and InductiveJohn Stuart Mill