|nämə|thed.ik adjective
Etymology: Greek nomothetikos of or relating to legislation, legislative, from nomothetēs lawgiver (from nomo- + -thetēs one who establishes, from tithenai to establish, place, set) + -ikos -ic — more at do
: relating to, involving, or dealing with the abstract, recurrent, universal : formulating general statements or scientific laws — contrasted with idiographic