Timeline for Preventative vs. preventive
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| Sep 12, 2016 at 22:45 | comment | added | DoctorWhom | An interesting note on formal usage: Preventive Medicine is a boarded medical specialty. theabpm.org/aboutus.cfm It is my field. I find it intriguing that our formal academy name and specialty boards chose the variant "preventive" over "preventative," and accordingly most people in this specialty say preventive in daily use. But I still do hear preventative used at times as an adjective, and I have never heard any of my colleagues say it is wrong. But it is not interchangeable in the specialty title. | |
| May 27, 2011 at 4:45 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | +1 I think authoritative and qualitative can be explained as coming (indirectly, through French) from the Latin nouns auctoritas, gen. auctoritat-is and qualitas, gen. qualitat-is, respectively. (The others are probably due to the back-formation of a suffix -ative from the verbs on -ate, as you say.) // I am generally in favour of shorter words, ceteris paribus, and would hence prefer preventive myself. | |
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| May 26, 2011 at 19:58 | history | answered | Kosmonaut | CC BY-SA 3.0 |