categorical
Etymology
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Etymology
From catēgoricus + -al.
Pronunciation- (America, Canada) IPA: /ˌkætəˈɡɔɹɪk(ə)l/
categorical
- Absolute; having no exception.
- 1900, Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey, The Interpretation of Dreams: Avon Books, page 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.
- Of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories.
- (absolute; having no exception) absolute, categoric, unconditional, categorial
- (antonym(s) of “absolute; having no exception”): exceptional, conditional, hypothetical, relative
- French: catégorique
- German: kategorisch
- Italian: categoriale
- Portuguese: categórico, taxativo
- Russian: категори́ческий
- Spanish: tajante, categórico
- French: catégoriel, catégorielle
- German: kategorisch
- Italian: categoriale
- Portuguese: categórico
categorical (plural categoricals)
- (logic) A categorical proposition.
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