presentationaladj.n.
/ˌprɛznˈteɪʃn̩(ə)l/, /ˌprɛznˈteɪʃən(ə)l/, U.S. /ˌprɛznˈteɪʃ(ə)nəl/, /ˌpriˌzɛnˈteɪʃ(ə)nəl/, /ˌpriznˈteɪʃ(ə)nəl/ Of or relating to presentation. Also occasionally as n.Originally Metaphysics: see presentationalism n. at Derivatives and presentation n. 8.
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society > communication > representation > [adjective] > of or relating to presentation
presentational1886
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > presenting to sight
presentational1886
the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > [adjective] > relating to presentation
presentative1846
prehensive1886
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1855 [see presentationalism n. at Derivatives].
1862 Harper's Mag. Aug. 33/2 The police captain in plain clothes, with a presentation watch in his pocket, attached to a presentational chain.
1886 E. J. Hamilton Mental Sci. xviii. 131 The whole doctrine is more comprehensive than that of presentational realism, and..may be designated by the unrestricted term ‘presentationalism’.
1907 Athenæum 18 May 610/3 The subjective self is..an inference from certain presentational changes that cannot be ascribed to physical stimuli, and Ward's view is justified.
1928 Daily Tel. 19 July 18/3 The intelligent theatres of New York..show an admirable sympathy both for good European drama and new forms of presentational art.
1929 A. N. Whitehead Process & Reality ii. iv. 170 Perception which merely, by means of a sensum, rescues from vagueness a contemporary spatial region, in respect to its spatial shape and its spatial perspective from the percipient, will be called ‘perception in the mode of presentational immediacy’.
1958 C. H. Whitman Homer & Heroic Trad. vi. 127 If metaphor flags and facts prevail, the presentational is lost, and the poem sinks to prose.
1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 28 Dec. 26/2 There would be ample scope for students to utilise a full range of presentational skills and communications media in their work.
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presenˈtationalism n.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > [noun] > doctrine of immediate cognition
presentationisma1842
representationalism1846
presentationalism1855
1855 Southern Literary Messenger May 300/1 Why, they assumed presentationalism. They assumed that the objects of external nature were not represented, but were presented and this presentation they called the immediate perception of an extra organic world.
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Presentationalism, the doctrine that man has an immediate perception of all the elemental forms of entity, as space, time, substance, and power; natural realism, in an extended sense.
1993 Shakespeare Bull. Summer 46/3 When a disconnection between the two is made obvious, the resultant style is what we call ‘theatricalism’ or ‘presentationalism’.
presenˈtationalist n.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > [noun] > doctrine of immediate cognition > adherent of
presentationist1846
presentationalist1895
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Presentationalism Presentationalist.
1984 New Literary Hist. 15 245 This view is associated with what I think of as a presentationalist view of art... The work of art can speak for itself; it stands in no need of ancillary information.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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