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plural definienda
(semantics) The term (word or phrase) defined in a definition (whether inside a sentence, as a dictionary entry, or otherwise). quotations examples
However, most advocates of the importance of real definition have limited the definiendum to certain kinds of things: usually an abstract entity or a concept.
1991, William Thomas Parry, Edward A. Hacker, Aristotelian Logic, SUNY Press, page 84
The objects themselves are the definienda of the definition. The first set of properties through which the definienda are collected together to form a group is called ‘the limiting properties of being the definienda of the definition’.
2013, Edward Craig, editor, Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge, page 198