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categorical

adj
/ˌkætəˈɡɒɹɪk(ə)l/UK/ˌkætəˈɡɔɹɪk(ə)l/CA/ˌkæhəˈɡaɹɪk(ə)l/

Etymology

From Late Latin catēgoricus + -al. By surface analysis, category + -ical.

  1. derived from catēgoricus + -al

Definitions

  1. Absolute

    Absolute; having no exception.

    • We now see that they [propositions] are either conditional or unconditional, or, as the logicians say, hypothetical (conditional) or categorical (unconditional).
    • Daytime interests are clearly not such far-reaching psychical sources of dreams as might have been expected from the categorical assertions that everyone continues to carry on his daily business in his dreams.

  2. Of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories.

  3. A categorical proposition.

The neighborhood

  • antonymexceptionalantonym(s) of “absolute, having no exception”
  • antonymconditionalantonym(s) of “absolute, having no exception”
  • antonymhypotheticalantonym(s) of “absolute, having no exception”
  • antonymrelativeantonym(s) of “absolute, having no exception”
  • neighborcategoricity

Derived

acategorical, bicategorical, categorical dual, categorical imperative, categorically, categoricalness, categorical product, categorical variable, intercategorical, intracategorical, multicategorical, noncategorical, subcategorical, transcategorical, uncategorical

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for categorical. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA