Nomothetic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or relating to lawmaking; legislative.
  • adj. Based on a system of law.
  • adj. Of or relating to the philosophy of law.
  • adj. Of or relating to the study or discovery of general scientific laws.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. defining laws
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Legislative; enacting laws.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Legislative; enacting laws.
  • Pertaining to a nomothete, or to the body of nomothetes.
  • Founded on a system of law or by a lawgiver; nomistic: as, nomothetic religions.
  • Noting a science which aims at the discovery of universals or general laws: opposed to idiographic.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. relating to or involving the search for abstract universal principles
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