nongenerative
- adjective
- /nɒnˈdʒɛnərətɪv/
- Specialized
- The company's nongenerative approach to innovation resulted in stagnation rather than growth.
Examples
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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.
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A nongenerative system might recycle old concepts instead of developing new ones.
Synonyms
1
5.1
Not showing imagination or new ideas
1
5.2
Not making useful things or results
Antonyms
How Generative
- Specialized
1
7.5
806
3.3
307
3.5
1
5.1
- Specialized
Surface Forms
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.