a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective , linear perspective .

a picture employing this technique, esp. one in which it is prominent

an architect's perspective of a house.

a visible scene, esp. one extending to a distance; vista

a perspective on the main axis of an estate.

the state of existing in space before the eye

The elevations look all right, but the building's composition is a failure in perspective.

the state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, etc., in having a meaningful interrelationship

You have to live here a few years to see local conditions in perspective.

the faculty of seeing all the relevant data in a meaningful relationship

Your data is admirably detailed but it lacks perspective.

a mental view or prospect

the dismal perspective of terminally ill patients.

of or pertaining to the art of perspective, or represented according to its laws.

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angle , aspect , attitude , broad view , context , frame of reference , headset , landscape , mindset , objectivity , overview , panorama , proportion , prospect , relation , relative importance , relativity , scene , size of it , viewpoint , vista , way of lookingnotes:perspective is a way of regarding situations or topics or a mental view or the state of one\'s ideas; prospective means concerned with or related to the future , lookout , outlook , sight , expectation