Meaning

observant; watchful.

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

Taking the cue from the depth and intensity of her terse poems, numbering 1775 (composed during four decades but except seven, all unpublished, during her lifetime) one feels she was engaged in a sort of poetic sadhana; she is curiously observative of the life around her and is concerned with 'deeper interests and finer suggestions.'

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.

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.

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.

Some again have pointed it out as an involution of the argument, that they first divide wisdom into observative and active, one of which is identical with the science of morals, which comprises four virtues, of which the aforesead wisdom is one; so that wisdom would here be a division of itself.

When these conceptive sensations occur during sleep, when the observative sensations do not intrude and force into notice their more vivid and consistent imagery, the conceptive sensations amount to what is called dreaming, in which state the mind mistakes them for the observative, or, in other words, believes them to be external objects.

But, on the other hand, this Quantum Logic obtained by completion does not contain, in the case of complex systems, only observative elements (testable properties), but even elements that are non-observative (theoretical properties), at least in the sense that they do not correspond to first order properties that can be directly tested on a physical object.

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

Word Forms

• more observative
• most observative
• observatives

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