perspectivaladj.
/pəˈspɛktᵻvl/, /ˌpəːspɛkˈtʌɪvl/, U.S. /pərˈspɛktᵻv(ə)l/, /ˌpərspɛkˈtaɪv(ə)l/ Of, relating to, or involving perspective (in various senses).
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > school of thought > [adjective]
perspectivala1866
ideological1873
value-oriented1938
theological1959
values-oriented1959
a1866 J. Grote Exploratio Philosophica Pt. II (1900) xii. 121 The ‘perspectival’ fact (so to call it) of foreshortening..is opposed to his argument in one respect.
1932 H. H. Price Perception vii. 196 The group would be a series of shapes having a certain limit... The series will consist primarily of perspectival distortions.
1957 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 10 126 All historiography is perspectival, originating from some given point in the economic, political, cultural and moral structures of society.
1994 City Life 24 Aug. 35/2 You can spend many happy minutes walking up and down past these new works as normal perspectival logic is reversed and space slips sideways before you.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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