presentative

[ pri-zen-tuh-tiv ]

adjective

1. (of an image, idea, etc.) presented, present, known, or capable of being known directly.
2. Ecclesiastical. admitting of or pertaining to presentation.
3. Philosophy. immediately knowable; capable of being known without thought or reflection.

presentative

/ prɪˈzɛntətɪv /

adjective

1. philosophy
   1. able to be known or perceived immediately
   2. capable of knowing or perceiving in this way
2. subject to or conferring the right of ecclesiastical presentation

Derived Forms

• preˈsentativeness, noun

Other Words From

• unpre·senta·tive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of presentative¹

First recorded in 1550–60; present ² + -ative

Example Sentences

Neighboring Washington Community Schools Superintendent Daniel Roach said the “red” rating for Daviess County “was not presentative” of infection rates within school buildings.

From Washington Times

The first of these elements, originally an excitement, becomes a simple sensation; then a compound sensation; then a cluster of partially presentative and partially representative sensations, forming an incipient emotion; then a cluster of exclusively ideal or representative sensations forming an emotion proper; then a cluster of such clusters forming a compound emotion; and eventually becomes a still more involved emotion composed of the ideal forms of such compound emotions.

From Project Gutenberg

The mere idea as presentative or immediate has to be kept clear of the more logico-reflective, or normative ideas, which belong to judgment and reasoning.

From Project Gutenberg

He “hath no chapter, yet is presentative, and hath cure of souls; he hath a peculiar, and is not subject to the visitation of the bishop of the diocese.”

From Project Gutenberg

Normally, sensory vividness attaches only to those presentative elements which are excited through stimulations of the sense-organs.

From Project Gutenberg