different between verity vs perspective

English

Etymology

From Middle English verite, from Anglo-Norman verité or Middle French verité, from Old French verité, from Latin v?rit?s, from the adjective v?rus (“true”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v???ti/

Noun

verity (countable and uncountable, plural verities)

1. Truth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth; veracity.
   • 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 2

     [...] but in the verity of extolment

     I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion

     of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of

     him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would

     trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.

   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:

     For the assured truth of things is derived from the principles of knowledg, and causes which determine their verities.
2. A true statement; an established doctrine.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 290-1:

     Absolutist verities were not only being challenged in more systematic and more daring forms than hitherto; the parameters of political debate were also being widened by both government and its critics.

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English

Etymology

From Middle English perspective, perspectif, attested since 1381, from Old French or Middle French, from the first word of the Medieval Latin perspectiva ars (“science of optics”), the feminine of Latin perspectivus (“of sight, optical”), from perspectus, the past participle of perspicere (“to inspect, look through”), itself from per- (“through”) + specere (“to look at”); the noun sense was influenced or mediated by Italian prospettiva, from prospetto (“prospect”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??sp?kt?v/

Noun

perspective (countable and uncountable, plural perspectives)

1. A view, vista or outlook.
2. The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision.
3. The technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
4. (dated) An artwork that represents three-dimensional objects in this way.
5. (figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
6. The ability to consider things in such relative perspective.
7. A perspective glass.
   • 1645, Joseph Hall, The Peace-Maker

     […] our predecessors; who could never have believed, that there were such lunets about some of the planets, as our late perspectives have descried […]

8. A sound recording technique to adjust and integrate sound sources seemingly naturally.

Hyponyms

• linear perspective
• metaperspective
• microperspective

Derived terms

• point-projection perspective
• side-perspective

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Translations

Adjective

perspective (not comparable)

1. Of, in or relating to perspective.

2. (obsolete) Providing visual aid; of or relating to the science of vision; optical.
   • 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Seeming Wise

     perspective glasses

Translations

Further reading

• Perspective (graphical) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• 3D_projection#Perspective_projection on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin perspect?vus, from perspici?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.sp?k.tiv/

Noun

perspective f (plural perspectives)

1. perspective
2. prospect

Derived terms

• en perspective

Descendants

• ? Danish: perspektiv
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: perspektiv
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: perspektiv
• ? Swedish: perspektiv

Adjective

perspective

1. feminine singular of perspectif

Further reading

• “perspective” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Verb

perspective

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of perspectivar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of perspectivar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of perspectivar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of perspectivar