Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Univocal   Listen
noun
Univocal  n.  
1.
(Aristotelian Logic) A generic term, or a term applicable in the same sense to all the species it embraces.
2.
A word having but one meaning.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Univocal" Quotes from Famous Books



... immediately apprehended unity and meaning. It would be a great mistake to construe this meaning in sense as analogous to the crude symbolism of the educator Froebel, to whom, as he said, "the world of crystals proclaimed, in distinct and univocal terms, the laws of human life." Wordsworth did not attach ideas to sense, but regarded sense itself as a communication of truth. We readily call to mind his unique capacity for apprehending the characteristic flavor of a certain place in a certain ...
— The Approach to Philosophy • Ralph Barton Perry


Words linked to "Univocal" :   equivocal, unequivocal, absolute


Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org