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Vinony

didactic

adjective

  1. related to teaching
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /daɪˈdæk.tɪk/ / /dɪˈdæk.tɪk/

adj

Etymology: From French didactique, from Ancient Greek διδακτικός (didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”), from διδακτός (didaktós, “taught, learnt”), from διδάσκω (didáskō, “to teach, educate”). By surface analysis, didact + -ic.

  1. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.

    “didactic poetry”

    “Falling Bastilles, Insurrections of Women, thousands of smoking Manorhouses, a country bristling with no crop but that of Sansculottic steel: these were tolerably didactic lessons; but them [the Nobility] they have not taught.”

  2. Excessively moralizing.
  3. Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

noun

Etymology: From French didactique, from Ancient Greek διδακτικός (didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”), from διδακτός (didaktós, “taught, learnt”), from διδάσκω (didáskō, “to teach, educate”). By surface analysis, didact + -ic.

  1. A treatise on teaching or education.