aspective
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Reflecting one or more aspects, usually of a unified whole, as opposed to a heterogenous entity composed of qualitatively different parts.
adj
adj
Having a fixed symbolic rendition, as opposed to one that represents a particular perspective or point of view.
Example Sentences
- "The aspective relation borne by the symbol to the matter symbolised is widely different from that which the matter symbolised bears to the symbol; but, when the symbol is an idea, deliberately employed, it carries with it the consciousness of the twofold relation."
- "We are holistic, and we are highly aspective."
- "While developing a notion of humanity as "aspective yet holistic,” Frank Stagg says this about biblical interpretations of the concept of "self": Many terms are used in Scripture to stress the aspective nature of man, as seen from various perspectives."
- "The “aspective” naturalist program has gone from strength to strength, while the “partitive” dualist program, with Sir John Eccles as its sole eminent champion of recent decades, has gone nowhere."
- "Intermediate between aspective and inflectional prefixes are the cessatives, and the repetitive (-yi-)."
- "When forming an aspective pair in which both verbs have the same meaning, prefixes perform a merely 'aspective' (grammatical) function, often losing their lexical meaning."