Perspective Things Global Put Historical People Noun Pəˈspektɪv

• a global perspective
• a historical perspective may help us understand the issue.
• recent events seem less serious when put into an international perspective.
• the aim is to offer a fresh perspective.

perspective

1. a particular attitude towards something; a way of thinking about something
• SYNONYM viewpoint
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• a global perspective
• A historical perspective may help us understand the issue.
• Recent events seem less serious when put into an international perspective.
• The aim is to offer a fresh perspective.
• Try to see the issue from a different perspective.
• a report that looks at the education system from the perspective of deaf people
• The exhibition provides us with a unique perspective on her work.

Extra Examples

• The author brings a balanced perspective to these complex issues.
• The book adopts a historical perspective.
• This latest study explores stress from a unique perspective.
• This lively book presents a refreshing new perspective on a crucial period in our history.
• This website puts a completely different perspective on world news.
• This will require a shift in perspective.
• We should view this from the perspective of the people involved.
• We'll be looking at fatherhood issues from a personal perspective.
• When you reach middle age you get a different perspective on life.
• a feminist perspective in philosophy
• his desire to broaden his narrow perspective
• multicultural education based on a global perspective
• stories told from multiple perspectives
• women who bring a feminist perspective to their works
• The perspective of wheelchair users must be taken into account when designing public buildings.
• Try to approach the problem from a different perspective.
• His experience abroad provides a wider perspective on the problem.
• The conference was a wonderful opportunity to share practices and gain a more global perspective on nursing.
2. the ability to think about problems and decisions in a reasonable way without making them seem worse or more important than they really are
• She was aware that she was losing all sense of perspective.
• Try to keep these issues in perspective.
• Talking to others can often help to put your own problems into perspective.
• It is important not to let things get out of perspective.

Extra Examples

• Her death put everything else into perspective.
• I just need to keep things in perspective.
• It's easy to lose perspective on things when you are under stress.
• Let's get this into perspective.
• We can now see things in their true perspective.
3. the art of creating an effect of depth and distance in a picture by representing people and things that are far away as being smaller than those that are nearer the front
• The artist plays with perspective to confuse the eye.
• We learnt how to draw buildings in perspective.
• The tree on the left is out of perspective.
4. a view, especially one in which you can see far into the distance
• a perspective of the whole valley

Word Origin

• late Middle English (in the sense ‘optics’): from medieval Latin perspectiva (ars) ‘(science of) optics’, from perspect- ‘looked at closely’, from the verb perspicere, from per- ‘through’ + specere ‘to look’.