presentive
nounEtymology From present + -ive.
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A grammatical construct that introduces or asserts the existence or occurrence of something in the present.
presentive
adjEtymology From present + -ive.
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Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination.
- How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries.1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Introducing or asserting the existence or occurrence of something in the present.
- Antonyms
- symbolic
- Related terms
- presentively, presentiveness