Presentive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Presentive is an adjective meaning Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination.
Meaning
Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination.
More Meanings
- (grammar) Introducing or asserting the existence or occurrence of something in the present.
- (grammar) A grammatical construct that introduces or asserts the existence or occurrence of something in the present.
Example Sentences
How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries.
Word Forms
- presentives
Antonyms for presentive
Common opposites include symbolic.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include presentative, imagined, ideational, imaginant, envisaged, visualized.
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