descriptionist /dəˈskɹɪpʃənəst/adjective 3noun 2forms 1 adjective3 •Descriptivist.In effect, they say "a plague on both your houses" to the two sides in the prescriptionist-descriptionist debate. — 2013 •Regarding utterances as primarily descriptive rather than as rigidly specifying a particular thing or kind of thing.The problem with the descriptionist account of date-times is that it gives the wrong truth conditions to sentences like that in CAESAR. — 2015 •Of or relating to descriptionism (theory of truth). noun2 •One who subscribes to descriptionism. •Synonym of descriptivist.The author of the Waverley novels is another fine example; but he clearly takes his highest rank as a descriptionist—the painter of effects and appearances rather than of facts and of causes. — 1824 formsdescriptionists
