Is 'distinctives' an obsolete word?
Elsewhere on Stack Exchange I noticed the word 'distinctive' used as a noun and its plural expressed :
How can we educate new users about our site distinctives ?
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The OED states that the word 'distinctive' is both an adjective and a noun but it lists references to the noun only up to the nineteenth century.
I can see that the word has a different meaning to 'characteristics' in that 'distinctives' refers to particular characteristics which distinguish something from others of its type.
So, a word which may be useful and a word which someone has used in living memory but is it, officially, an obsolete word ?
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Elsewhere on Stack Exchange I noticed the word 'distinctive' used as a noun and its plural expressed :
How can we educate new users about our site distinctives ?
Bible Hermeneutics - Meta
The OED states that the word 'distinctive' is both an adjective and a noun but it lists references to the noun only up to the nineteenth century.
I can see that the word has a different meaning to 'characteristics' in that 'distinctives' refers to particular characteristics which distinguish something from others of its type.
So, a word which may be useful and a word which someone has used in living memory but is it, officially, an obsolete word ?
word-usage
asked 6 mins ago
Nigel JNigel J
17.4k94587
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Elsewhere on Stack Exchange I noticed the word 'distinctive' used as a noun and its plural expressed :
How can we educate new users about our site distinctives ?
Bible Hermeneutics - Meta
The OED states that the word 'distinctive' is both an adjective and a noun but it lists references to the noun only up to the nineteenth century.
I can see that the word has a different meaning to 'characteristics' in that 'distinctives' refers to particular characteristics which distinguish something from others of its type.
So, a word which may be useful and a word which someone has used in living memory but is it, officially, an obsolete word ?
word-usage
asked 6 mins ago
Nigel JNigel J
17.4k94587
Elsewhere on Stack Exchange I noticed the word 'distinctive' used as a noun and its plural expressed :
How can we educate new users about our site distinctives ?
Bible Hermeneutics - Meta
The OED states that the word 'distinctive' is both an adjective and a noun but it lists references to the noun only up to the nineteenth century.
I can see that the word has a different meaning to 'characteristics' in that 'distinctives' refers to particular characteristics which distinguish something from others of its type.
So, a word which may be useful and a word which someone has used in living memory but is it, officially, an obsolete word ?
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Nigel JNigel J
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