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nongenerative

nongenerative

9.9
Unable to create new things or examples
  • adjective
  • /nɒnˈdʒɛnərətɪv/
  • Specialized
translation icon : no generativo
  • The company's nongenerative approach to innovation resulted in stagnation rather than growth.

Examples

  • A nongenerative reading will either address a contextually specific sin in a way that fails to heal it, or it will articulate a logic in conflict with the logic of healing.

    Academic text (2017)
  • My suggestion is that doctrine plays (or should play) this role, offering not a particular, context-bound interpretation, but a hermeneutical rule that positively serves the text's generativity and negatively rules out nongenerative interpretations.

    Academic text (2017)
  • She found that her nongenerative methods of brainstorming weren't yielding any fresh ideas.

  • A nongenerative system might recycle old concepts instead of developing new ones.

Synonyms

noncreative
vsnongenerative
1 5.1

Not showing imagination or new ideas

focuses on missing a creating process or model rather than imagination
nonproducing
vsnongenerative
5.2

Not making useful things or results

focuses on inability to produce new items rather than on complete lack of output

Antonyms

2 7.3

Having the ability to make or produce new things

How Generative

generative
  • Specialized
1 7.5
creative
772 3.3
productive
293 3.5
noncreative
1 5.1
nongenerative
  • Specialized
9.9

Surface Forms

nongenerative positive

Morphology

nongenerative = generative (transparent) = non + generative

The meaning is a straightforward negation formed by adding the productive prefix 'non-' to the adjective 'generative'.

Etymology

Nongenerative breaks into non- meaning 'not' and generate meaning 'to make or produce', as in generation. So nongenerative describes something that 'does not produce' new things or does not use a creating method.