PRESENTIVE

Etymology

Adjective

presentive (not comparable)

Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination.

Antonyms

• symbolic

Anagrams

• pretensive, vespertine

Source: Wiktionary


Pre*sent"ive, a. (Philol.)

Definition: Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle.

– Pre*sent"ive*ly, adv.

– Pre*sent"ive*ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ACRIMONIOUS

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