aspective

English

Etymology

aspect +‎ -ive

Adjective

aspective (not comparable)

1. (philosophy, theology) Reflecting one or more aspects, usually of a unified whole, as opposed to a heterogenous entity composed of qualitatively different parts.
   • 1915, George Croom Robertson, George Frederick Stout, George Edward Moore, Mind, page 507:

     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.

   • 1977, William Powell Tuck, The Struggle for Meaning, page 78:

     We are holistic, and we are highly aspective.

   • 1985, Wallace Charles Smith, The Church in the Life of the Black Family, page 50:

     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.

   • 2013, Nicola Hoggard Creegan, Andrew Shepherd, Taking Rational Trouble Over the Mysteries: Reactions to Atheism:

     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.

2. (linguistics) Pertaining to or supporting grammatical aspect.
   • 1907, Publications of the American Ethnological Society, page 159:

     Intermediate between aspective and inflectional prefixes are the cessatives, and the repetitive (-yi-).

   • 1962, Anna Hering Semeonoff, Russian syntax: being part III of A new Russian grammar, page 147:

     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.

   • 1968, English Teaching Forum - Volume 6, page 18:

     Our problem is a critical analysis of the commonly accepted opinion that Slavonic languages—like Polish—being aspective tongues, differ in this respect from English, which is commonly supposed to belong to the non-aspective types of Germanic languages.

   • 2014, Jerzy Bańczerowski, Kyong-Geun Oh, “A Draft Proposal for a Theory of Aspect in Korean”, in Rocznik orientalisticzny, volume 67, number 1, page 44:

     Accordingly, in order to characterize sentences aspectively, and thereby to capture aspective properties of the events designated by these sentences, the following three aspective dimensions or parameters by necessity commend themselves:

3. (art) Having a fixed symbolic rendition, as opposed to one that represents a particular perspective or point of view.
   • 1986, Roger Neich, The Development of New Zealand Maori Figuritive Painting, page 227:

     Historical events can also be depicted in aspective art but the artist has no alternative scheme to show that this is a non-recurrent event.

   • 1993, Jean-Joseph Goux, Oedipus, Philosopher, page 128:

     The transformation of the Greek myths into a tragic representation itself corresponds to the passage from aspective to perspective.

   • 2011, Bennie H. Reynolds III, Between Symbolism and Realism:

     The differences between perspective and aspective approaches to a subject result in significantly different pieces of art. "Depending on where the viewer places himself the sides are foreshortened, the angles are distorted, and the line bedomes finer as distance increases; in painting the colours and the shadows change, while an aspective artist will normally only render local colours without shadows."

Noun

aspective (uncountable)

1. (art) The techniques that make art aspective as opposed to perspective.
   • 1978, William H. Peck, Egyptian Drawings:

     This unusual sketch from the Valley of the Kings depicts a queen or perhaps a goddess riding into battle in a chariot against a male opponent. She and her adversary are driven by smaller charioteers, according to the laws of aspective."

Translations

Translations

• Polish: (when regarding ancient Egyptian art) aspektywa f