Privative adjective
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Privative adjective
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In linguistics, a privative adjective is an adjective which seems to exclude members of the extension of the noun which it modifies. For instance, "fake" is privative since a "fake nose" is not an actual nose. Other examples in English include "pretend", "fictitious", and "artificial". The defining feature of privative adjectives is shown below in set theoretic notation. An adjective Adj is privative if for any noun N , we have that [ [ Adj N ] ] ∩ [ [ N ] ] = ∅ . Privative adjectives are non-su
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