differentiative
- adjective
- /ˌdɪfərˈɛnʧɪˌeɪtɪv/
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diferenciativo
- The differentiative approach in marketing helped the company stand out from its competitors.
- differentiative model
- additive and differentiative
Examples
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Additive and differentiative views of historical sequences do not hold the same intellectual weights, properties, and implications.
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Our preferred intellectual models do make a difference, and we must therefore be sensitive to the disparate implications of additive and differentiative models as we struggle to understand the history of life.
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If allegiance to an additive or differentiative model implied no consequences for skewing our views of life in disparate directions, then we could blow off the entire subject as an effete intellectual game.
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I then view days 5 and 6 as, in part, emplacements (more additive than differentiative) into appropriate surroundings, but also as the final differentiations of each realm—as water, air, and land all bring forth their appropriate living expressions.
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The researchers emphasized the differentiative characteristics of the species to clarify their ecological roles.
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Teachers often employ differentiative strategies to cater to the diverse learning styles of their students.
Antonyms
How Distinctive
Surface Forms
Morphology
differentiative = differentiate (transparent) = differentiate + ive
Standard adjectival formation from the verb 'differentiate' with clear meaning 'serving to distinguish'.
Etymology
Differentiative comes from the same root as different and difference, which mean 'not the same' or 'put apart'. So a differentiative feature is one that helps you tell things or groups 'apart' and makes them stand out.