different between didactic vs didacticity

English

Alternative forms

• didactick (obsolete)

Etymology

From French didactique, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”), from ???????? (didaktós, “taught, learnt”), from ??????? (didásk?, “I teach, educate”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?-d?k?t?k, IPA^(key): /da??dæk.t?k/, /d??dæk.t?k/
• Hyphenation: di?dac?tic

Adjective

didactic (comparative more didactic, superlative most didactic)

1. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.

   Synonyms: educative, instructive
2. Excessively moralizing.
3. (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

didactic (plural didactics)

1. (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French didactique

Adjective

didactic m or n (feminine singular didactic?, masculine plural didactici, feminine and neuter plural didactice)

1. didactic

Declension

English

Etymology

didactic +? -ity

Noun

didacticity (uncountable)

1. Aptitude for teaching.
   • 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers

     The best training for style is speech; not monologues, or lectures ex cathedra, like those of the German professors, of whose uninterrupted didacticity their literature bears too many marks

Related terms

• didactic

References

didacticity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.