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Perspective vs Perspectival - What's the difference?

perspective | perspectival |

As adjectives the difference between perspective and perspectival

is that perspective is of, in or relating to perspective while perspectival is of or pertaining to perspective.

As a noun perspective

is a view, vista or outlook.

perspective

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A view, vista or outlook.
  • The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision.
  • The technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
  • (figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
  • The ability to consider things in such relative perspective
  • A perspective glass.
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
  • A sound recording technique to adjust and integrate sound sources seemingly naturally.

    • Derived terms

    * linear perspective * metaperspective * microperspective * put something into perspective

    Related terms

    * perspicacious * perspicacity * perspicuity * perspicuous * perspicuously

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, in or relating to perspective
    • a perspective drawing
  • (obsolete) providing visual aid; of or relating to the science of vision; optical
    • (Francis Bacon)

    perspectival

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to perspective
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    • , passage=After all, sense-data are typically introduced into a theory as a result of argument—as a result, for instance, of reflecting on such phenomena as illusion, hallucination, perspectival variation, and so forth—and not as a result of sheer self-awareness. }}