Discursive

What do we mean by discursive?

Covering a wide field of subjects; rambling. adjective

Proceeding to a conclusion through reason rather than intuition. adjective

Relating to the understanding, or the active facility of knowing or of forming conclusions; ratiocinative: opposed to intuitive.

Passing rapidly from one subject to another; desultory; rambling; digressional.

Passing over an object, as in running the eye over the parts of a large object of vision.

Passing from one thing to another; ranging over a wide field; roving; digressive; desultory. adjective

Reasoning; proceeding from one ground to another, as in reasoning; argumentative. adjective

Tending to digress from the main point; rambling. adjective

Using reason and argument rather than intuition. adjective

Proceeding to a conclusion by reason or argument rather than intuition adjective

(of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects adjective

(of speech or writing) Tending to digress from the main point; rambling.

Using reason and argument rather than intuition.

Words that are spelled similarly to discursive:
discursive, discoursive, discussive, dispersive, discrive, discursion, dissuasive, incursive, decursive, discursist.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word discursive:
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Words that rhyme with discursive:
subversive, cursive, coercive, aversive, dispersive, adverse of, burse of, curse of, disperse of, diverse of, hearse of, inverse of, merce of, nurse of, obverse of, pearse of, perce of, pers of, perverse of, purse of, reverse of, transverse of, universe of, vers of, versa of, verse of, worse of.

Adjectives that are often used to describe discursive:
least.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective discursive:
practices, practice, thought, space, formation, formations, construction, limits, strategies, reason, field, reasoning, power, psychology, knowledge, context, thinking, forms, form, analysis, process, strategy, constructions, production, structures, approach, level, language, style, processes, structure, framework, democracy, understanding, elements, nature, mode, spaces, resources, intellect, mind, fields, activity, order, faculty, contexts, consciousness, prose, logic, relations, positions, struggle, shift, modes, politics, terms, authority, means, community, interaction, writing, regimes, terrain, meditation, tradition, representation, frameworks, frame, realm, thoughts, patterns, boundaries, acts, argument, approaches, regime, communities, act, representations, account, conventions, constitution, essay, rules, turn.

Consonant match to discursive:
discussive, discuss of.

Words that sound like discursive:
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