POINT OF VIEW

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The spatial property of the position from which something is observed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("point of view" is a kind of...):

position; spatial relation (the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "point of view"):

camera angle (the point of view of a camera)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A mental position from which things are viewed

Example:

teaching history gave him a special point of view toward current events

Synonyms:

point of view; stand; standpoint; viewpoint

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("point of view" is a kind of...):

position; posture; stance (a rationalized mental attitude)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "point of view"):

cityscape (a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area)

landscape (an extensive mental viewpoint)

angle; slant (a biased way of looking at or presenting something)

complexion (a point of view or general attitude or inclination)

Credits

Context examples:

He very naturally fell to studying her from this new point of view, and before the evening was half over, had decided that 'little Amy was going to make a very charming woman'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I alluded merely to the trend of modern thought and the general scientific point of view, if I might so express it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The textual representation of the planned activity from the point of view of a blinded participant (study subject or study investigator).

(Planned Activity Blinded Description, NCI Thesaurus)

Hard to get the opinion of operators and manufactures, they do not want to give their point of view and refer to their websites, where internal studies are published, so no objectivity guaranteed.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

He had never learned to read nor write, but his vocabulary was remarkable, and more remarkable still was the completeness with which he had assumed the white man's point of view, the white man's attitude toward things.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Earth and the moon appear closer than they actually are in this image because the observation was planned for a time at which the moon was almost directly behind Earth, from Mars' point of view, to see the Earth-facing side of the moon.

(Earth and Its Moon, as Seen From Mars, NASA)

This theory sounded so reasonable that it seemed to lift a little of the weight from my heart, but I could see that from my uncle’s point of view it was a poor consolation.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The arrival of a new family in the country was always a matter of joy to him, and in every point of view he was charmed with the inhabitants he had now procured for his cottage at Barton.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The findings of the 'Biorisk' experiment are not only of significant scientific interest, but also invaluable from the practical point of view for the justification of the planetary quarantine strategy during future interplanetary flights, the report said.

(Mutated Terrestrial Bacteria That Return from Space Pose Threat to Life on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

From an official point of view it’s simply awful.