Antonyms of noun prescriptive_linguistics

1 sense of prescriptive linguistics

Sense 1
prescriptive linguistics -- (an account of how a language should be used instead of how it is actually used; a prescription for the `correct' phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics)
       Antonym of descriptive linguistics (Sense 1)
      => descriptive linguistics -- (a description (at a given point in time) of a language with respect to its phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics without value judgments)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun prescriptive_linguistics

1 sense of prescriptive linguistics

Sense 1
prescriptive linguistics -- (an account of how a language should be used instead of how it is actually used; a prescription for the `correct' phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics)
       => linguistics -- (the scientific study of language)