👉 Rubificative is a term used in the field of linguistics and philosophy to describe a word or phrase that serves as a "rubber" around another word, functionally equivalent but not identical. This can be seen as a way to create a new meaning or construct a new sentence structure by adding the characteristic of being rubber-like around another object. For example, in English, if we say "The sun is shining," the phrase "shining rubric" is used because it means that