point of view
nounEtymology
Calque of French point de vue.
Definitions
A position from which something is seen.
- From the operator's point of view, there is a large blind spot on one side of the machine.
- From an economist's point of view, business is all about money.
- From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
An attitude, opinion, or set of beliefs.
- Near-synonyms: slant, bias
- His point of view is that there is only one true religion.
The perspective from which a narrative is related.
- The storyline in the film “The Usual Suspects” is presented from the point of view of an unreliable narrator.
- Therefore, there may be no overt indication of viewpoint, either because the speaker fails to mark his or her viewpoint, or because he or she takes a neutral point of view.
The neighborhood
- neighborfirst person
- neighborsecond person
- neighborthird person
- neighborin someone's view
- neighborline of sight
- neighborpoint of reference
- neighborpoint of sight
- neighborpoint of vision
- neighborworldview
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for point of view. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA