"denotative" meaning in English

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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "denotativeness"
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  "etymology_text": "From Latin dēnotātus + -ive. By surface analysis, denote + -ative.",
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      "form": "more denotative",
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        "comparative"
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      "form": "most denotative",
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          "ref": "1989, Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf:",
          "text": "There was still no concept of language (arithmetical symbolism, perhaps, is not a language, is not denotative in the same sense as words).",
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        "That denotes or names; designative."
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          "denote",
          "denote"
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          "name",
          "name"
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          "designative",
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "that denotes or names",
          "word": "denotativo"
        },
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          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "denotativtık",
          "sense": "that denotes or names",
          "word": "денотативтік"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "that denotes or names",
          "word": "denotativo"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "that denotes or names",
          "word": "denotativ"
        }
      ]
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        {
          "word": "connotative"
        }
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        "Specific to the primary meaning of a term."
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          "Specific",
          "specific"
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          "primary",
          "primary"
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          "meaning",
          "meaning"
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      "word": "denotatively"
    },
    {
      "word": "denotativeness"
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      "word": "nondenotative"
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    {
      "form": "more denotative",
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        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most denotative",
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        "superlative"
      ]
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  "pos": "adj",
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "that denotes or names",
      "word": "denotativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "denotativtık",
      "sense": "that denotes or names",
      "word": "денотативтік"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "that denotes or names",
      "word": "denotativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "that denotes or names",
      "word": "denotativ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "denotative"
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