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discursive
adjective
(dis-cur-sive)
proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition
Synonyms:
dianoetic
,
discursive
adjective
(dis-cur-sive)
(of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
Synonyms:
digressive
,
excursive
,
rambling
,
Examples:
A rambling discursive book.
Words Related to
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digressive
,
rambling
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logical
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indirect
,
dianoetic
,
excursive
,
performative
,
essayistic
,
polemical
,
dialogical
,
epistemological
,
poetic
,
didactic
,
semiotic
,
phenomenological
,
dialectical
,
ideational
,
expository
,
thematic
,
hermeneutical
,
metaphysical
,
philosophic
,
textual
,
hermeneutic
,
conversational
,
scholarly
,
dialogic
,
overdetermined
,
novelistic
,
authorial
,
reductive
,
aphoristic
,
solipsistic
,
ludic
,
writerly
,
psychoanalytic
,
impressionistic
,
allusive
,
declamatory
,
ruminative
,
postmodernist
,
psychoanalytical
,
formalistic
,
quotidian
,
contrapuntal
,
imagistic
,
shavian
,
teleological
,
nuanced
,
reductionist
,
aleatory
,
metrical
,
idiosyncratic
,
hegelian
,
epistolary
,
sententious
,
improvisatory
,
wordy
,
epigrammatic
,
revelatory
,
naturalistic
,
stagey
,
nabokovian
,
liminal
,
diagrammatic
,
exegetical
,
stagy
,
abstruse
,
tendentious
,
hieratic
,
compendious
,
songlike
,
positivistic
,
pedantic
,
sociopolitical
,
dostoevskian
,
rebarbative
,
whiggish
,
prolix
,
hemingwayesque
,
banal
,
illuminative
,
propositional
,
cadenced
,
sophistic
,
interrogative
,
longwinded
,
incantatory
,
hortatory
,
picaresque
,
autobiographic
,
recondite
,
seriocomic
,
nonliteral
,
contemplative
,
psychodynamic
,
deconstructionist
,
pointillistic
,
jamesian
,
ostensive
,
discursive
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