Definition of "denotive" [de•not•ive]

• Serving to denote something. (adjective)

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• "The aborigines were at the time of discovery, and indeed most of them remain today, in the prescriptorial stage of culture, i.e., the stage in which ideas are crystallized, not by means of arbitrary symbols, but by means of arbitrary associations, (18) and in this stage names are connotive or descriptive, rather than denotive as in the scriptorial stage."
• "What is now needed is a rule of some kind leading scholars to use the same terms for the same things, and it would seem to matter little in the case of linguistic stocks what the nomenclature is, provided it becomes denotive and universal."
• "It is believed that a name should be simply a denotive word, and that no advantage can accrue from a descriptive or connotive title."