aspective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aspect + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The aspective relation borne by the symbol to the matter symbolised is widely different from that which the matter symbolised bears to the symbol; but, when the symbol is an idea, deliberately employed, it carries with it the consciousness of the twofold relation.
ref: 1915, George Croom Robertson, George Frederick Stout, George Edward Moore, Mind, page 507:
text: We are holistic, and we are highly aspective.
ref: 1977, William Powell Tuck, The Struggle for Meaning, page 78:
text: While developing a notion of humanity as "aspective yet holistic,” Frank Stagg says this about biblical interpretations of the concept of "self": Many terms are used in Scripture to stress the aspective nature of man, as seen from various perspectives.
ref: 1985, Wallace Charles Smith, The Church in the Life of the Black Family, page 50:
text: The “aspective” naturalist program has gone from strength to strength, while the “partitive” dualist program, with Sir John Eccles as its sole eminent champion of recent decades, has gone nowhere.
ref: 2013, Nicola Hoggard Creegan, Andrew Shepherd, Taking Rational Trouble Over the Mysteries: Reactions to Atheism:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
theology
glosses: Reflecting one or more aspects, usually of a unified whole, as opposed to a heterogenous entity composed of qualitatively different parts.
examples: text: Intermediate between aspective and inflectional prefixes are the cessatives, and the repetitive (-yi-).
ref: 1907, Publications of the American Ethnological Society, page 159:
text: When forming an aspective pair in which both verbs have the same meaning, prefixes perform a merely 'aspective' (grammatical) function, often losing their lexical meaning.
ref: 1962, Anna Hering Semeonoff, Russian syntax: being part III of A new Russian grammar, page 147:
text: Our problem is a critical analysis of the commonly accepted opinion that Slavonic languages—like Polish—being aspective tongues, differ in this respect from English, which is commonly supposed to belong to the non-aspective types of Germanic languages.
ref: 1968, English Teaching Forum - Volume 6, page 18:
text: Accordingly, in order to characterize sentences aspectively, and thereby to capture aspective properties of the events designated by these sentences, the following three aspective dimensions or parameters by necessity commend themselves:
ref: 2014, Jerzy Bańczerowski, Kyong-Geun Oh, “A Draft Proposal for a Theory of Aspect in Korean”, in Rocznik orientalisticzny, volume 67, number 1, page 44:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or supporting grammatical aspect.
examples: text: Historical events can also be depicted in aspective art but the artist has no alternative scheme to show that this is a non-recurrent event.
ref: 1986, Roger Neich, The Development of New Zealand Maori Figuritive Painting, page 227:
text: The transformation of the Greek myths into a tragic representation itself corresponds to the passage from aspective to perspective.
ref: 1993, Jean-Joseph Goux, Oedipus, Philosopher, page 128:
text: The differences between perspective and aspective approaches to a subject result in significantly different pieces of art. "Depending on where the viewer places himself the sides are foreshortened, the angles are distorted, and the line bedomes finer as distance increases; in painting the colours and the shadows change, while an aspective artist will normally only render local colours without shadows."
ref: 2011, Bennie H. Reynolds III, Between Symbolism and Realism:
topics: art
arts
glosses: Having a fixed symbolic rendition, as opposed to one that represents a particular perspective or point of view.