Descriptiveness

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Descriptive \De*scrip"tive\, a. [L. descriptivus: cf. F.
     descriptif.]
     Tending to describe; having the quality of representing;
     containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a
     descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story
     descriptive of the age.


     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Descriptive anatomy}, that part of anatomy which treats of
        the forms and relations of parts, but not of their
        textures.
  
     {Descriptive geometry}, that branch of geometry. which treats
        of the graphic solution of problems involving three
        dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes.
        --Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) -- {De*scrip"tive*ly}, adv.
        -- {De*scrip"tive*ness}, n.
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