referential
- adjective
- /ˌrɛfəˈrɛnʃəl/
- Specialized
- But for Tracy and Gerrish, doctrines are also "referential PROPOSITIONS" asserting "fundamental truths maintained by the community."
- self-referential
- referential and textual
- referential meaning
For narcissist, disappointment is always through a self referential lens.
- For narcissist, disappointment is always through a self referential lens.
- Wonder I think is the least self referential emotion.
- And now we're going to start to see AI programming AI and it becomes self referential and accelerates even faster.
- The meaning of life is just a bunch of self referential or citation needed type of statements.
- They are self referential and remind the readers of the vivid details of the moment of writing.
- So here's the way to so I you know, I gave you the simple example of the self referential device.
- You got a little referential button on the pocket.
- South isomorphic truth, self referential statement groups, right?
- Skills apply or not, they have conditions of application, not conditions of referential completion, right?
- But he also wants to call into question the referential, the referential accuracy of Wilson's perception of Brown.
- And Christ says, no, you know, and, and Christ says that all manner of of things shall be said against the son of man, which is a self referential term son of man.
- So we've now discovered that we we can't hope that it's just weird self referential gadillion sentences that are going to be knocked out.
Examples
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Reality and any other visual acknowledgment of it are used only as referential models.
Academic text (2017) -
The act of naming serves at least two functions: referential and expressive.
Academic text (1999) -
Electric Dress is in a constant referential relationship to the body.
Academic text (2013) -
The former method has generally been abandoned due to a lack of empirical and referential support.
Academic text (1994) -
The city center definitely lost its character as a "referential center" for the people of Bogota.
Academic text (1991) -
The textual perspective does not necessarily deny the presence of referential factors or meanings in a text.
Academic text (1990) -
The word 'dog' is referential because it points to a specific kind of animal.
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In literature, a referential statement can identify real-world objects or concepts.
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His comments were often referential, linking ideas to well-known theories and events.
How Referential
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word referential comes from the common verb refer and the noun reference, which originally meant 'bring back' or 'point back' to something. So something referential 'points to' or 'relates to' a real thing.