Sekirov Dictionary

observative

adjective 3
noun 2
forms 3

adjective3

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Pertaining to observation.
- A Habit may often raise the common conceptive sensations to the same degree of vividness as the observative, and even to a degree still higher. — 1830
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Pertaining to an observative (utterance about an observation).
- Nevertheless, even Quine, one of the strongest enemies of the distinction between observation and theory, maintains that it is possible to characterise observative sentences. — 2000
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observant; watchful
- As early as 1842, he had referred to what he called his 'observative mood' and the search for a vantage point from which the city could be contemplated as a vast, rushing spectacle. — 2021

noun2

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An observation.
- The observatives on which the totality of our empirical knowledge rests are themselves the result of the transformation of perceptual habits through initiation into the discursive community. — 2015
An utterance that describes or calls attention to something that the speaker observes.

forms

observatives · more observative · most observative

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