All 5 Uses of
analytical
in
Selected Tales, by Poe
- The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis.†
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- The analytical power should not be confounded with ample ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.†
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- Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater, indeed, than that between the fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous.†
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- It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.†
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- At such times I could not help remarking and admiring (although from his rich ideality I had been prepared to expect it) a peculiar analytic ability in Dupin.†
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Definition:
relating to logical and systematic examination of something to better understand it -- often implying some kind of quantitative analysis