Meanings
- not comparableindicative; that points out.
The ability to suffer patiently, then, is indicant of spiritual maturity
2009, Paul L. Heck, Common Ground: Islam, Christianity, and Religious Pluralism
plural indicants
- Something which indicates or points out; an indicator
Yet in spite of the essential crudity of this advertising, it had very early developed the value of the trademark as an indicant of quality in the product to which it was attached.
1910, Edwin Balmer, The Science of Advertising1 more example
"A number of things—his gratuitous and obviously mendacious statement that he had just read of the murder; his wholly insincere homily on the sacredness of professional confidences; the cautious and Pecksniffian confession of his fatherly regard for the girl; his elaborate struggle to remember when he had last seen her—this particularly, I think, made me suspicious; and then, the psychopathic indicants of his physiognomy."
1927, Willard Huntington Wright, The "Canary" Murder Case/Chapter 11, Chapter 11
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinindicans
- Englishindicant
From Latin indicans.
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