different between categorical vs qualitative

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?kæt??????k(?)l/

Adjective

categorical (comparative more categorical, superlative most categorical)

1. Absolute; having no exception.
   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 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.

2. Of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories.

Synonyms

• (absolute; having no exception): absolute, categoric, unconditional

Antonyms

• (absolute; having no exception): exceptional, conditional, hypothetical, relative

Derived terms

• acategorical
• categorical imperative
• categoricalness

Related terms

• categoricity

Translations

Noun

categorical (plural categoricals)

1. (logic) A categorical proposition.

English

Etymology

From Late Latin (or Medieval Latin) qu?lit?t?vus.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kw?l.??te?.t?v/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kw?l.?.t?.t?v/
• Hyphenation: qual?i?ta?tive

Adjective

qualitative (comparative more qualitative, superlative most qualitative)

1. Of descriptions or distinctions based on some quality rather than on some quantity.
2. (chemistry) Of a form of analysis that yields the identity of a compound.

Derived terms

• qualitatively
• qualitativeness

Related terms

• quality

Translations

Noun

qualitative (plural qualitatives)

1. Something qualitative.

See also

• quantitative

French

Adjective

qualitative

1. feminine singular of qualitatif

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

qualitative

1. inflection of qualitativ:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

qualitative

1. feminine plural of qualitativo