Observative

Quick meaning: Observative is an adjective meaning observant; watchful.

Meaning

observant; watchful.

More Meanings

1. Pertaining to observation.
2. Pertaining to an observative (utterance about an observation).
3. An observation.
4. (language) An utterance that describes or calls attention to something that the speaker observes.

Example Sentences

A Habit may often raise the common conceptive sensations to the same degree of vividness as the observative, and even to a degree still higher.

Nevertheless, even Quine, one of the strongest enemies of the distinction between observation and theory, maintains that it is possible to characterise observative sentences.

As early as 1842, he had referred to what he called his 'observative mood' and the search for a vantage point from which the city could be contemplated as a vast, rushing spectacle.

That street life/compact city perspective is common to all the observative authors, therefore embedding the compact city concept of formal quality both in the selection of relevant formal components and in the definition of criteria for their quantitative measurement.

Word Forms

• observatives

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vigilous, observatorial, observational, postattentive, inspective, investigative.

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