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point of view (plural points of view)

1. A position from which something is seen.

   Alternative forms: POV, point-of-view

   Synonyms: viewpoint, standpoint, outlook, perspective

   From the operator's point of view, there is a large blind spot on one side of the machine.

   From an economist's point of view, business is all about money.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Cipher Codex entry:

     It has been suggested that Prothean data recording is highly dependent on a certain point of view, what Carl Jung described as the collective unconscious. The 'cipher' needed to comprehend the images implanted in Shepard's mind is the cultural knowledge of a Prothean: the archetypes, biological instincts, and common experiences universal to the race.

2. An attitude, opinion, or set of beliefs.

   Alternative forms: POV, point-of-view

   Synonyms: viewpoint, standpoint, outlook, perspective

   Near-synonyms: slant, bias

   His point of view is that there is only one true religion.

3. (literary theory) The perspective from which a narrative is related.

   Alternative forms: POV, point-of-view

   Synonyms: viewpoint, perspective

   The storyline in the film “The Usual Suspects” is presented from the point of view of an unreliable narrator.

   • 1999, Lise Menn, Akio Kamio, Makoto Hayashi, Ikuyo Fujita, Sumiko Sasanuma, Larry Boles, “The Role of Empathy in Sentence Production”, in Akio Kamio, Ken-ichi Takami, editors, Function and Structure‎, page 331:

     Therefore, there may be no overt indication of viewpoint, either because the speaker fails to mark his or her viewpoint, or because he or she takes a neutral point of view.

   1. The point-of-view character in a story.

派生語

• NPOV
• point-of-viewlessness

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Further reading

• point of view on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “point of view”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “point of view”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "point of view" in Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P)2007 Microsoft Corporation.