categorematic

adjective

cat·​e·​gor·​e·​mat·​ic

¦katəˌgȯrə¦matik

: capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition : expressing a complete substantive meaning

man is a categorematic word

—opposed to syncategorematic

Word History

Etymology

French catégorématique, from Greek katēgorēmat-, katēgorēma predicate (from katēgorein to predicate) + French -ique -ic

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