Synonyms for perspective
pərˈspɛk tɪvper·spec·tive

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1. position, view, perspectivenoun

   a way of regarding situations or topics etc.

   "consider what follows from the positivist view"

   Synonyms:
   stance, prospect, billet, berth, lieu, place, spot, locating, aspect, purview, view, linear perspective, post, vista, survey, thought, position, spatial relation, opinion, status, positioning, scene, sentiment, posture, panorama, eyeshot, horizon, military position, attitude, placement, emplacement, sight, stead, situation, side, location, office, persuasion

2. perspective, linear perspectivenoun

   the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer

   Synonyms:
   linear perspective, position, view

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1. • Appearance
   • Orientation

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1. mindset

   the view from which you register the world around.

   his perspective of the situation is all wrong....

   Submitted by JP03 on November 24, 2014  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.7 / 3 votes

1. perspectivenoun

   Synonyms:
   vista, prospect, view

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1. List of paraphrases for "perspective":

   prospect, perspectives, prospects, outlook, angle, standpoint, viewpoint, view, vision, optical, context, approach, viewpoints, insight, dimension, light, views, lens, optics, mainstreaming, aspect

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1. Elizabeth Nabel:

   I might have watched the game from purely an entertainment perspective in the past, but now I clearly watch the game from a safety perspective, my eyes are always out there watching the players, looking for potentially harm or injuries.

2. Xavier Mosquet:

   These are not investments made with a four-year perspective, you have to make it with a 20-year perspective.

3. Christopher Morley:

   Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

4. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu:

   Any time he can call for a meeting, just to get a briefing, and for consultations. This is something that is normal according to the constitution and normal according to Turkish political tradition in the last 50 years, in the future, if there is any constitutional change, we will see. But at the moment this is the division of power which is clear from the perspective of legality and from the perspective of political responsibility.

5. Truman Capote:

   Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.