perspectivelessadj.
/pəˈspɛktᵻvlᵻs/, U.S. /pərˈspɛktᵻvlᵻs/ Lacking perspective; esp. drawn without regard to perspective.
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perspectiveless1853
1853 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 128 The stiff, ungainly, awkward, perspectiveless, colorless daubs of the forerunners of Giotto and Cimabue.
1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist vii. 420 Blended in one dazzling but perspectiveless picture.
1907 E. Wharton Fruit of Tree iii. xxiii. 344 The fact of his arrival might have been crowded out by the birth of the kittens, or some incident equally prominent in her perspectiveless grouping of events.
1970 Nature 4 July 93/1 From the perspectiveless drawing of the Ancient Egyptians to the deliberate mixing of contradictory signs of depth by Hogarth and later artists.
1999 Ethics 110 213 The second perspective, ‘the view from nowhere’, purports to be perspectiveless, hence temporally and culturally universal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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