denotative

Indeed, not much of anything denotative is easy to discern.

A television's denotative meaning would be that it is high definition.

Each letter, they thought, had a simple denotative definition.

"In the West, 80 percent of language is denotative.

"Poetry can be denotative and connotative at the same time," she said.

The signified has two meanings known as denotative and connotative.

The denotative relation is the relation between signs and objects.

But her strange vernacular feels like words might if they could only burst from their denotative shells.

Although there is large overlap, the denotative and connotative definitions differ.

The denotative meaning is the meaning of the product.

The number is a denotative value, i.e. it speaks only for itself.

Sometimes dance like this reaches deep into a viewer's emotions, even if the denotative meaning remains unclear.

Lists connotative and denotative meanings for specific phrases used throughout the circular.

Its elements are words with fixed denotative meanings.

My own choice for a label is Taboo , which is incisively denotative.

Traditionally, depiction is distinguished from denotative meaning by the presence of a mimetic element or resemblance.

A constant connotative meaning justifies an enlarged denotative meaning.

Supertitles work better in opera, in which the music stretches out the denotative information supplied by the words.

The denotative meaning of a signifier is intended to communicate the objective semantic content of the represented thing.

Two aspects of meaning that may be given approximate analyses are the connotative relation and the denotative relation.

Some denotative, others connotative, some implying social acceptability, others pejorative.

An extensional definition, also called a denotative definition, of a concept or term specifies its extension.

It considers social connotations, including meanings related to ideology and power structures, in addition to denotative meanings of signs.

In semiotics, connotation arises when the denotative relationship between a signifier and its signified is inadequate to serve the needs of the community.