different between linguistic vs metaethics

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German linguistisch, equivalent to linguist +? -ic. Compare linguistics. Ultimately from Latin lingua (“tongue”). Attested in English since 1825.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /l????w?st?k/
• Rhymes: -?st?k
• Hyphenation: lin?guis?tic

Adjective

linguistic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to language.
2. Of or relating to linguistics.

   • We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics.

3. (computing) Relating to a computer language.
   • 1993, Dimitris N. Chorafas, Manufacturing Databases and Computer Integrated Systems, CRC Press, ?ISBN, page 114:

     The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies.

Synonyms

• linguistical (less common)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• linguicist

Ladin

Adjective

linguistic m pl

1. plural of linguistich

Romanian

Adjective

linguistic m or n (feminine singular linguistic?, masculine plural linguistici, feminine and neuter plural linguistice)

1. Alternative form of lingvistic

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• meta-ethics

Etymology

meta- +? ethics

Noun

metaethics (uncountable)

1. (ethics) The descriptive study of philosophical ethical systems, especially with regard to their key concepts, techniques of reasoning and analysis, and linguistic conventions.

Derived terms

• metaethical

References

• “metaethics” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
• The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Paul Edwards (ed.), Macmillan, 1967. See: "Ethics, Problems of" by Kai Nielsen, vol. 3, pp. 117-134.