Definition of "perspective" []

• A view or vista. (noun)
• A mental view or outlook: "It is useful occasionally to look at the past to gain a perspective on the present” ( Fabian Linden). (noun)
• The appearance of objects in depth as perceived by normal binocular vision. (noun)
• The relationship of aspects of a subject to each other and to a whole: a perspective of history; a need to view the problem in the proper perspective. (noun)
• Subjective evaluation of relative significance; a point of view: the perspective of the displaced homemaker. (noun)

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• "V. i.204 (246,9) [A natural perspective] A _perspective_ seems to be taken for shows exhibited through a glass with such lights as make the pictures appear really protruberant."
• "Sounds sensational yet like polaccs when put in perspective is not anyhwhere as bad as it seems."
• "This switch in perspective is the basis for developing empathy."