denotative
Adjective

denotative

  1. That denotes or names; designative.
    • 1989, Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf
      There was still no concept of language (arithmetical symbolism, perhaps, is not a language, is not denotative in the same sense as words).
  2. Specific to the primary meaning of a term.
    Antonyms: connotative
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