Perspective vs. Perceptive: What's the Difference?
Perspective and Perceptive Definitions
Perspective
A view or vista.
Perceptive
Of or relating to perception
Perceptive faculties.
Perspective
A mental view or outlook
"It is useful occasionally to look at the past to gain a perspective on the present" (Fabian Linden).
Perceptive
Having the ability to perceive; keen in discernment.
Perspective
The appearance of objects in depth as perceived by normal binocular vision.
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Perceptive
Marked by discernment and understanding; sensitive.
Perspective
An understanding of how aspects of a subject relate to each other and to the whole
A perspective of history.
A need to view the problem in the proper perspective.
Perceptive
Having or showing keenness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.
He is so perceptive when it comes to other people's feelings.
Perspective
Subjective evaluation of relative significance; a point of view
The perspective of the displaced homemaker.
Perceptive
Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception.
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Perspective
The ability to perceive things in their actual interrelations or comparative importance
Tried to keep my perspective throughout the crisis.
Perceptive
Of or relating to perception;
Perceptive faculties
Perspective
The technique of representing three-dimensional objects and depth relationships on a two-dimensional surface.
Perceptive
Having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment;
A perceptive eye
A perceptive observation
Perspective
Of, relating to, seen, or represented in perspective.
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Perspective
A view, vista or outlook.
Perspective
The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision.
Perspective
The technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
Perspective
(dated) An artwork that represents three-dimensional objects in this way.
Perspective
(figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
Perspective
The ability to consider things in such relative perspective.
Perspective
A perspective glass.
Perspective
A sound recording technique to adjust and integrate sound sources seemingly naturally.
Perspective
Of, in or relating to perspective.
A perspective drawing
Perspective
(obsolete) Providing visual aid; of or relating to the science of vision; optical.
Perspective
Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.
Perspective
Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws, of perspective.
Perspective
A glass through which objects are viewed.
Perspective
That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista.
Perspective
The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognized them as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, aërial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects.
Aërial perspective is the expression of space by any means whatsoever, sharpness of edge, vividness of color, etc.
Perspective
The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; - called also linear perspective.
Perspective
A drawing in linear perspective.
Perspective
A way of regarding situations or topics etc.;
Consider what follows from the positivist view
Perspective
The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
