Definition of Distinctively

1. Adverb. In an identifiably distinctive manner. "The distinctively conservative district of the county"

Partainyms: Distinctive

Definition of Distinctively

1. adv. With distinction; plainly.

Definition of Distinctively

1. Adverb. In a distinctive manner; in a way that is notable for its difference. ¹

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Definition of Distinctively

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Distinctively

distillery
distilling
distillment
distillments
distills
distils
distinct
distincter
distinctest
distinction
distinction without a difference
distinctions
distinctions without a difference
distinctive
distinctive feature
distinctively
distinctiveness
distinctly
distinctness
distinctnesses
distincture
distingue
distinguish
distinguishability
distinguishable
distinguishableness
distinguishably
distinguished
distinguishedly
distinguisher

Literary usage of Distinctively

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Essentials of æsthetics in Music, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture and by George Lansing Raymond (1921)
"... of Nature—And also Results that are Distinctively Human— The Fine or Higher Arts—Distinguished from Others by Belonging Most Finely and Distinctively to ..."

2. Art in Theory: An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1894)
"... most Distinctive Art-Qualities—Arts Ranked by the Degree in which they most Finely and Distinctively Reproduce Nature : Useful, Operative, Mechanical, ..."

3. A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws: Or, Private International Law by Francis Wharton (1906)
"Questions directly and distinctively affecting title to, or interest in, real property.—Questions concerning the mode or manner of solemnization of an ..."

4. The System of Animate Nature: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the by John Arthur Thomson (1920)
"Is there a Non-perceptual Vital Agency resident in Organisms and Operative in distinctively Vital Activities? § 6. Descriptive or Methodological Vitalism: ..."

5. Ethics by John Dewey, James Hayden Tufts (1908)
"We now see what is meant by a distinctively moral happi- and how this happiness is supreme in quality as ness, compared with other satisfactions, ..."

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