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adjective
1.
intended for instruction; instructive: didactic poetry.
2.
inclined to teach or lecture others too much: a boring, didactic speaker.
3.
teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.
4.
Also, di·dac·ti·cal.
Origin:
1635–45; < Greek didaktikós apt at teaching, instructive, equivalent to didakt(ós) that may be taught + -ikos -ic
1635–45; < Greek didaktikós apt at teaching, instructive, equivalent to didakt(ós) that may be taught + -ikos -ic
Related forms
di·dac·ti·cal·ly, adverb
di·dac·ti·cism, noun
non·di·dac·tic, adjective
non·di·dac·ti·cal·ly, adverb
un·di·dac·tic, adjective
Synonyms
2. pedantic, preachy, donnish, pedagogic.
2. pedantic, preachy, donnish, pedagogic.
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didacticism
of literature or other art, intended to convey instruction and information. The word is often used to refer to texts that are overburdened with instructive or factual matter to the exclusion of graceful and pleasing detail so that they are pompously dull and erudite. Some literature, however, is both entertaining and consciously didactic, as, for example, proverbs and gnomic poetry. The word is from the Greek didaktikos, "apt at teaching."
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