Definitions for didactics

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didactics di·dac·tic

Spelling: [dahy-dak-tik]

IPA: /daɪˈdæk tɪk/

Didactics is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in didactics (accddiist).

Definitions for didactics

adjective

1. intended for instruction; instructive:
2. inclined to teach or lecture others too much:
3. teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.
4. didactics, (used with a singular verb) the art or science of teaching.

Origin of didactics

1635-45; Greek didaktikós apt at teaching, instructive, equivalent to didakt(ós) that may be taught + -ikos -ic

Examples for didactics

We sometimes apply to these the words Orthobiotics, didactics, and Pragmatics.

The greatest part of Mr. Cowper's didactics is in the same strain.

The words "orthobiotics," "didactics," and "pragmatics" might be used to characterize them.

Hence, we have in Emerson the teaching of a vigorous morality without the formality of dogma and the deadly tedium of didactics.

Few English naturalists are as genial--not even White of Selborne--and few as wide in didactics.