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discriminative
/dɪˈskɹɪmənətɪv/
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What does discriminative mean?
adjective
- Having or relating to the ability to discriminate between things.
- Which serves to distinguish its bearer.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɪˈskɹɪmənətɪv/
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The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice.
These characteristics come from his sense of duty, which is strongly developed, and careful training will make him discriminative in his assaults.
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And then this passing discriminative power was withdrawn, and Jude was lost to all conditions of things in the advent of a fresh and wild pleasure, that of having found a new channel for emotional interest hitherto unsuspected, though it had lain close beside him.
A discriminative avoidance of neologisms is honorific, not only because it argues that time has been wasted in acquiring the obsolescent habit of speech, but also as showing that the speaker has from infancy habitually associated with persons who have been familiar with the obsolescent idiom.