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Presentative vs Presentable - What's the difference?

presentative | presentable |

As adjectives the difference between presentative and presentable

is that presentative is capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties while presentable is presentable (able to be presented).

presentative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties.
  • (ecclesiastical, legal) Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution.
  • * Blackstone
  • Advowsons are presentative , collative, or donative.
  • Admitting the presentation of a clergyman.
  • * Spelman
  • a presentative parsonage
    (Webster 1913)

    presentable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In good enough shape that someone or something can be shown to other people, tidy, attractive
  • :* Before we go out, let me just go to the washroom and make myself presentable .
  • * 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
  • Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints. When they were all quite presentable they followed the soldier girl into a big room where the Witch Glinda sat upon a throne of rubies.

    Derived terms

    * presentably * unpresentable