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perspective

pers·pec·tive

US/pɚˈspɛk.tɪv/ common

noun

1.

a way of regarding situations or topics etc.

  • “consider what follows from the positivist view”
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2.

the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer

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Origin

From Middle English perspective, perspectif, attested since 1381, from Old French or Middle French, from the first word of the Medieval Latin perspectiva ars (“science of optics”), the feminine of Latin perspectivus (“of sight, optical”), from perspectus, the past participle of perspicere (“to inspect, look through”), itself from per- (“through”) + specere (“to look at”); the noun sense was influenced or mediated by Italian prospettiva, from prospetto (“prospect”).

Phrases

  • aerial perspective
  • atmospheric perspective
  • forced perspective
  • in perspective
  • isometric perspective
  • mixed perspective
  • point-projection perspective
  • put something into perspective

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