descriptivist

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Subscribing to, or related to, descriptivism.
2. noun Someone who records and describes actual rules regarding language usage, or who believes that linguistic norms should be defined by usage rather than theory.

Similar words

descriptivistic descriptory descriptionistic descriptionist descriptive descriptional subscriptive metadescriptive subtypic subsumptive

Often followed by

theory account theories and view approach position tradition views