presentive
Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination.
Adjective
- 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:
- Introducing or asserting the existence or occurrence of something in the present.
Origin
From present + -ive.
Antonyms
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Noun
- A grammatical construct that introduces or asserts the existence or occurrence of something in the present.