(linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative. / A member of a primitive society. / A simple-minded person.

Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first. / Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.

plural of primitive

The quality or state of being primitive.

In a primitive manner.

plural of primitiveness

The state of being primitive; primitiveness.

plural of primitivity

(mathematics) Of a function, capable of being constructed from the zero function, successor function, and projection functions, by a finite number of applications of composition and recursion.

(computer science) A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean.