ostensive
/ɒˈstɛnsɪv
/adjective
1Directly demonstrative.Those results are ostensive evidence implying the contribution of apparent motion mechanisms to ILM perception....
- Both texts direct the reader to attend to the saving and comforting power of God; both also provide ostensive biblical legitimization for Equiano's autobiography.
- Nevertheless, while we might struggle to analyze ‘religion’, an ostensive project should be reasonably successful.
1.1 Linguistics Denoting a way of defining by direct demonstration, e.g. pointing.
Derivatives
ostensively
- How did these lists - which ostensively are trying to measure the same thing - get so dissimilar?
- Foundationalist empiricism recognizes two source of meaning: some terms derive their meanings ostensively, by correlation with whatever is ‘directly presented’ in experience.
- Bishop is closer to the modernists on this front and closer, particularly, to what Altieri calls ‘the romantic values they were ostensively denying’.
ostensiveness
- How can certain stimuli signal their own intended ostensiveness, prior to the recipient's search for the relevance of the information that the stimulus allegedly singles out?
Origin
Mid 16th century: from late Latin ostensivus, from ostens- 'stretched out to view' (see ostensible).
Rhymes
- descending colon
- descending diphthong
- descending node
- descending rhythm
- descension
- descensional
- descensive
- descensory
- descent
- descent cast
- descentive
- deschool
- deschooler
- deschooling
- descloizite
- descramble
- descrambler
- descrial
- describability
- describable
- describble
- describe
- describee
- describer
- descrier