protensive

[ proh-ten-siv ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. extended in dimension or extended in time.

Other Words From

• pro·tensive·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of protensive¹

1635–45; < Latin protēns ( us ) (past participle of protendere to protend ) + -ive, on the model of extensive, intensive, etc.

Example Sentences

Therefore its author wisely avoids the danger by holding, that in vision we have merely the perception of what the Germans would call the Auseinanderseyn, that is, the asunderness, of things—a perception which implies no judgment as to whether the things are secerned in plane or in protensive space.

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We say, in place; and it will be found that there is no contradiction in our saying so, when we shall have shown that it is the touch, and not the sight, which establishes a protensive interval between the organ and the sensations of vision.

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He further disputes the relevancy of the question about our perception of lateral extension, and maintains that distance in a direction from the percipient, or what we should call protensive distance, is the only matter in dispute; and that it is a misconception of the scope of Berkeley's essay to imagine otherwise.

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Happiness is the satisfaction of all our desires; extensive, in regard to their multiplicity; intensive, in regard to their degree; and protensive, in regard to their duration.

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