Projecting

/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɪŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

Sticking out..

Definitions by Sense

1. Sticking out.
2. (psychology) Giving an outward appearance, in order to avoid a direct connection or to disguise or inflate the real essence.
3. present participle and gerund of project
4. The act by which something is projected.
5. A projecting part.
6. (psychology) Assumption of qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality; projection.

Example Sentences

I caught and tore my coat on the projecting nail.

The movie projector here is, of course, an analog of Soul, and its projectings (abstracting from the movie screen on which they fall) analogs of Soul's ontically generative activities.

The sombre shadows, cast by those huge houses of which it is composed, and the streams of faint light cutting the darkness here and there, where the entrance to some fantastic alley pierces the sable mass of building—the strange projectings, recedings, and windings […]

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