DESCRIPTIVE

adjective Date: 1723 serving to describe , 2. referring to, constituting, or grounded in matters of observation or experience , factually grounded or informative rather than normative, prescriptive, or emotive , 3. of a modifier expressing the quality, kind, or condition of what is denoted by the modified term , nonrestrictive , of, relating to, or dealing with the structure of a language at a particular time usually with exclusion of historical and comparative data , ~ly adverb ~ness noun