the faculty of seeing all the relevant data in a meaningful relationship
the state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, etc., in having a meaningful interrelationship
the state of existing in space before the eye
a mental view or prospect
a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface
a visible scene, esp. one extending to a distance; vista
a picture employing this technique, esp. one in which it is prominent
of or pertaining to the art of perspective, or represented according to its laws
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < ML perspectīva (ars) optical (science), perspectīvum optical glass, n. uses of fem. and neut. of perspectīvus optical, equiv. to L perspect-, ptp. s. of perspicere to look at closely ]
