Protensive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /pɹəˈtɛnsɪv/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Protensive is an adjective meaning Drawn out; extended.
Meaning
Drawn out; extended.
More Meanings
- (phenomenology) Anticipating the future; pertaining to protention.
Example Sentences
The diversity as protensive is in the manifoldness of the successive instants through which the appearance as quality is prolonged .
Their heightened enjoyment Iser explains in terms of the protensive tension provoked by the strategic interruption of the narrative at crucial moments .
And then our patience is, as Christ's most exactly was, according to the will of God; when it is as extensive, as intensive, and as protensive as God requires it to be.
Time, Protension or protensive quantity, called likewise Duration, is a necessary condition of thought. It may be considered both in itself and in the things which it contains.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include drawn out, long-drawn-out, extended, prolonged, overprotracted, long-drawn.
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