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Associative   Listen
adjective
Associative  adj.  Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Associative" Quotes from Famous Books



... coercion. Isolated labor if on exceptionally fertile soil or if equipped with specially efficient apparatus or if supernormal in energy may produce a surplus income, but ordinarily it can earn no more than a bare subsistence. Associative labor yields so much greater returns that masters of one sort or another emerge in every progressive society to replace dispersion with concentration and to engross most of the accruing enhancement ...
— American Negro Slavery - A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime • Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

... suppose them able to remember and forget, i.e. to retain certain vibrations that have been once established—gradually to lose them and to receive others instead. We must suppose some more intelligent, versatile and of greater associative power than others. ...
— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler



Words linked to "Associative" :   associate, associative aphasia, associable, nonassociative, associatory



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