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Synonyms for perspective

Grammar : Noun
Spell : per-spek-tiv
Phonetic Transcription : pərˈspɛk tɪv

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Définition of perspective

Origin :
  • late 14c., "science of optics," from Old French perspective and directly from Medieval Latin perspectiva ars "science of optics," from fem. of perspectivus "of sight, optical" from Latin perspectus "clearly perceived," past participle of perspicere "inspect, look through, look closely at," from per- "through" (see per) + specere "look at" (see scope (n.1)). Sense of "art of drawing objects so as to give appearance of distance or depth" is first found 1590s, influenced by Italian prospettiva, an artists' term. The figurative meaning "mental outlook over time" is first recorded 1762.
  • noun view, outlook
Example sentences :
  • Something had happened in Lilac Valley that had changed his perspective.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • Mrs Verloc looked straight ahead at the perspective of her escape.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
  • Thus I get a perspective upon the place, to Will and his ilk denied.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • This morning, the perspective of the little man was anything but normal.
  • Extract from : « A Breath of Prairie and other stories » by Will Lillibridge
  • The stove, with its perspective all awry, was tame and precise, and in colour as dingy as mire.
  • Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
  • The quay in perspective to the left, the man who shoulders that sack below.
  • Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
  • He had lacked the time and the perspective to do it for himself.
  • Extract from : « The Dominant Strain » by Anna Chapin Ray
  • At twenty the world is rosy and in the perspective are many castles.
  • Extract from : « The Strollers » by Frederic S. Isham
  • He was accepting them, but they hadn't any share in his perspective.
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
  • Looked at in perspective, and in his era, it is clear how great a man he was.
  • Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.
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