Määritteellistä

Määritteellistä is a Finnish adjective form used in scholarly contexts to describe something that is definable or related to a definition. It is the partitive singular form of the adjective määritteellinen, which derives from määrite meaning definition, term, or criterion. The word conveys that a concept, statement, or object can be specified by a set of properties or by a given definition within a formal framework.

In Finnish, määritteellinen describes relations to definitions or definitional criteria, and määritteellistä serves as the object form when the noun it modifies is in the partitive case. It is commonly found in disciplines that require precision, such as philosophy, linguistics, mathematics, and theoretical computer science. In such contexts, speakers may contrast definable content with non-definable or ill-defined material.

The term is typically used in technical prose rather than everyday speech. It often appears alongside related terms such as määrite (definition/term) and määritelmä (definition) and contributes to discussions about formal systems, classification, and the limits of definability.