prehensive

English

Adjective

prehensive (comparative more prehensive, superlative most prehensive)

1. (philosophy) Of or relating to Alfred North Whitehead's concept of prehension.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 82:

     In Faraday's vision of the interpenetrability of matter, or in Whitehead's vision of the prehensive unification of space-time, is expressed the Unitive state of the mystic.