Aspective

Quick meaning: Aspective is an adjective meaning (linguistics) Pertaining to or supporting grammatical aspect.

Meaning

(linguistics) Pertaining to or supporting grammatical aspect.

More Meanings

1. (art) Having a fixed symbolic rendition, as opposed to one that represents a particular perspective or point of view.
2. (art) The techniques that make art aspective as opposed to perspective.
3. (philosophy, theology) Reflecting one or more aspects, usually of a unified whole, as opposed to a heterogenous entity composed of qualitatively different parts.

Example Sentences

We are holistic, and we are highly aspective.

Intermediate between aspective and inflectional prefixes are the cessatives, and the repetitive (-yi-).

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.

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include multiaspectual, multiaspect, many-sided, mixed, multidimensional, multiperspective.

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