Associations to the word «Definiens»

Wiktionary

DEFINIENS, noun. (semantics) The word or phrase that defines the definiendum in a definition.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky