presentative

American  

[pri-zen-tuh-tiv] / prɪˈzɛn tə tɪv /

adjective

1. (of an image, idea, etc.) presented, known, or capable of being known directly.

2. Ecclesiastical. admitting of or pertaining to presentation.

3. Philosophy. immediately knowable; capable of being known without thought or reflection.

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presentative British  

/ prɪˈzɛntətɪv /

adjective

1. philosophy

   1. able to be known or perceived immediately

   2. capable of knowing or perceiving in this way

2. subject to or conferring the right of ecclesiastical presentation

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• presentativeness
  noun
• unpresentative
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of presentative

First recorded in 1550–60; present ² + -ative

Example Sentences

The opening move51ment begins with a sotto voce syncopation that is very presentative of the curious audible silence of a forest.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

In the first I know by what is called a presentative process, namely, that of sense-perception; in the second I know by a representative process, namely, that of reproduction, or on the evidence of memory.

From Illusions A Psychological Study by Sully, James

Introspection is presentative in the sense that the reality constituting the object of cognition, the mind's present feeling, is as directly present to the knowing mind as anything can be conceived to be.

From Illusions A Psychological Study by Sully, James

In the perception of an object and in the representation of it, introspective analysis discovers a number of presentative elements.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various

So that in this case, too, all definite concrete knowledge would seem to be either presentative cognition, memory, or, lastly, some mode of inference from these.

From Illusions A Psychological Study by Sully, James