POV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: POVs
Senses: examples: text: By this time we might suspect that he had not been looking at her in the previous shot, and that the bird shot had been from his pov.
ref: 1988, Kristin Thompson, Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 308:
text: From his pov, we see Boom Boom Grossman, 60, huge ex-pug Jack Dempsey look-alike with meat-hook hands and meat-pie face.
ref: 1993, Richard Price, 3 Screenplays, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 261:
text: When one of the girls goes down into the basement, she is devoured by the POV accompanied by audio portions of werewolfish sounds.
ref: 1999, Laurence A. Rickels, The vampire lectures, page 259:
text: A female point-of-view (pov) character is not necessarily written from the perspective of a female gaze. […] A pov character is a character through whose eyes and perspective we follow the action of the story.
ref: 2015, Kate Elliott, The Very Best of Kate Elliott, Tachyon Publications, →ISBN, page 344:
text: The film takes us immediately to Oscar’s pov, complete with momentary ‘blackouts’ as he blinks. […] Soon, still from Oscar’s pov, he begins lighting up a form of hallucinatory drug, and after a seemingly interminable number of attempts, begins to achieve the high he was seeking.
ref: 2022, Peter C. Pugsley, Ben McCann, The Cinematic Influence: Interaction and Exchange Between the Cinemas of France and Japan, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN:
text: Who would dare theorize the history and practice of jazz without taking into account its significant composers, vocalists and instrumentalists from their pov?
ref: 2022, Nigel Hamilton, “The Missing Key: Theorizing Modern Historical Biography”, in Hans Renders, David Veltman, editors, Fear of Theory: Towards a New Theoretical Justification of Biography, Brill, →ISBN, part I (Reflections on Theory and Biography), page 39:
glosses: Initialism of point of view.
The (cognitive, mental, or emotional) viewpoint of a certain person; (attributively) from that viewpoint.
related: word: P.O.V.
word: PoV
word: p.o.v.
word: pov
synonyms: viewpoint
antonyms: NPOV
point-of-viewlessness
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eticness
examples: text: POV videos
text: Ms. Brier specializes in point of view, or P.O.V., videos that confront relatable, often hateable characters, with a subtle sneer, gleefully rubbery body and arch delivery of generational catchphrases like “slay, queen” and “I got you,” often repeated for effect.
ref: 2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2023:
text: The earliest discovered dwerking video was shared by a TikToker named @mojothewzzrd back in May. Like many dwerking videos, this original video has an unserious tone, given away by its POV caption.
ref: 2025 July 8, Know Your Meme:
glosses: Initialism of point of view.
The vantage point of a particular person; (attributively) from that vantage point.
coordinate_terms: FPV
FPS
qualifier: physically
glosses: Initialism of privately owned vehicle.
topics: business
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glosses: Initialism of percentage of volume, a type of securities trading algorithm.