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English
Etymology
From non- + connotative.
Adjective
nonconnotative (not comparable)
- Not connotative.
2012, Jeff Rice, Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network, page 160:Barthes describes the punctum (the nonconnotative or denotative meaning) of the photograph (or movie still) in such a manner; the detail relevant or not relevant to the image's overall meaning becomes the focus of an otherwise forgettable picture […]
2019, William Hasker, God, Time, and Knowledge, page 92:We will use the name, as the ancient Hebrews did, simply as a nonconnotative proper name referring to that individual who in fact was, and is, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.