categorical
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (GA, Canada) IPA: /ˌkætəˈɡɔɹɪk(ə)l/
categorical
- absolute; having no exception
- 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:
- 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.
- 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 74:
- of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories
- (absolute; having no exception) absolute, categoric, unconditional
- (absolute; having no exception) exceptional, conditional, hypothetical, relative
- French: catégorique
- German: kategorisch
- Portuguese: categórico, taxativo
- Spanish: tajante
- French: catégoriel, catégorielle
- Portuguese: categórico
categorical (plural categoricals)
- (logic) A categorical proposition.
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