Definition of "designative" [des•ig•na•tive]

• Serving to designate. (adjective)

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• "In other words, expression becomes a designative rapport between the intentionality of a subject and the phenomenality of such a transmission of information."
• "Moreover, even substituting co-designative terms for ˜the earth™ may not preserve truth."
• "But in course of time these words have lost their force -- their meaning has been forgotten -- and they have come to be mere proper names, designative but not significative."