affordance
noun
af·for·dance ə-ˈfȯr-dᵊn(t)s 
plural affordances
: the quality or property of an object that defines its possible uses or makes clear how it can or should be used
We sit or stand on a chair because those affordances are fairly obvious.
Scott Lafee
Scott LafeeAn affordance is a resource or support that the environment offers an animal; the animal in turn must possess the capabilities to perceive it and to use it. Eleanor J. Gibson et al.
Eleanor J. Gibson et al.
Word History
Etymology
afford + -ance
Note: As a term in the study of cognition introduced by the American psychologist James J. Gibson (1904-79) in The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems (Boston, 1966) and later essays.
First Known Use
1966, in the meaning defined above
- pre-approving
- pre-arrange
- pre-arranged
- pre-arrangement
- pre-arrangements
- pre-arranging
- pre-assembled
- pre-assemblies
- pre-assembly
- pre-assign
- pre-assigned
- pre-assigning
- pre-au
- pre-authorization
- pre-authorize
- pre-bake
- pre-baked
- pre-baking
- pre-battle
- pre-biblical
- pre-book
- pre-booked
- pre-booking
- pre-breakfast
- pre-capitalist