Referential

Word REFERENTIAL
Character 11
Hyphenation ref er en tial
Pronunciations /ɹɛfəˈɹɛnʃəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Referential"

What do we mean by referential?

Of a word or phrase applied to a particular person, place, or thing and not to any other.

Of or relating to a referent.

Of or relating to reference or allusion.

Serving as a reference.

See circular definition. Urban Dictionary

The use of conscious desire to accelerate intersubjectivity toward anihilism (collapse of a medium). The collapse of postmodern subjectivity or medium into pure self-reference (aesthetic). Urban Dictionary

When you’re sitting with two or more friends, and you and one of those friends refers to an inside joke that the others don’t understand. Kind of like the reference flying over their head without them noticing. Urban Dictionary

When a young unmarried man with no children refers to himself as "Daddy" with his friends or potential love interests to make himself seem cooler, wiser, and more authoritative. Used largely by men in their early to mid-20s. Urban Dictionary

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The word "referential" in example sentences

The melodramatic and bloodless death of FFVII's flower girl has been lambasted for a decade in forums, webcomics, and in every arena where being cynically self-referential is cool. ❋ SVGL (2008)

The less obvious errors of grammatical and syntactical misuse remain, as do errors in referential pronouns, among others. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Much of science is referential, that is how a body of knowledge is built that leads to theories in science. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bear with me for a moment for technical details on a relational database management system (RDBMS) like Oracle, which Colorado is using for its voter registration database, and how the problems outlined in Kolwicz's letter are prevented by what is known as referential integrity (RI). ❋ Unknown (2008)

The first can be called referential because the ad relies on a referent from the larger social world, something that is used to lend its meaning to the product. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Disinterestedness (here rendered as a "specificity of aesthetic discourse" that slides away from a "purity of aesthetic experience") is always a detour on the way to what I have termed here sociological reduction, but which one may more generally term the referential horizon of the human. 5 ❋ Unknown (2005)

There is plenty of whimsy, but it never gets cute, precious, or self-referential, which is quite an achievement. ❋ Sfmike (2006)

A little thing called referential transparency, for one. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Without that kind of referential knowledge and a lot more already in place, even the Antikythera Mechanism would appear as just another natural oddity to avoid stubbing your toe against while tracking that mammoth. ❋ Christopher O'Brien (2007)

It must have something that distinguishes a scientific treatise from a tune ” in fact it must be that the same thing, which I am calling the referential dimension, that serves to distinguish poetry from a tune (it has to have sound and sense, as we say). ❋ Kemp, Gary (2009)

People sort of enjoy that kind of referential thing, and they like making connections. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Counter to previously held assumptions, chimpanzees can effectively command their chimp buddies to perform various grooming tasks using "referential" hand gestures, just like their human relatives ...

❋ Anonymous (2003)

The [collapse] of [symbolic] communication into memes is an [instance] of contra-referentialization. ❋ Sandrashine (2018)

Person 1: “Hahaha, [yeah like that] night with the [pumpkin] and the homeless guy” Person 2: “Yeah [I remember]” Person 3: “I don’t get it” Person 1 and 2: “We always end up with referential flyovers with you" ❋ Faisface (2011)

"Daddy had [a great day] in the office and now he needs a [scotch] to celebrate. Why don't you go and get Daddy a drink?" ([self-referential] "Daddy") ❋ Jaycar (2018)

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