Prospective vs. Perspective — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Prospective and Perspective
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Definitions
Prospective
Expected or expecting to be the specified thing in the future
She showed a prospective buyer around the house
Perspective
The art of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other
The theory and practice of perspective
A perspective drawing
Prospective
Likely or expected to happen.
Perspective
A particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; a point of view
Most guidebook history is written from the editor's perspective
Prospective
Likely to become or be
Prospective clients.
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Perspective
An apparent spatial distribution in perceived sound.
Prospective
Likely or expected to happen or become.
Prospective students are those who have already applied to the university, but have yet to be admitted.
Perspective
A view or vista.
Prospective
Anticipated in the near or far future.
Perspective
A mental view or outlook
"It is useful occasionally to look at the past to gain a perspective on the present" (Fabian Linden).
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Prospective
Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
Perspective
The appearance of objects in depth as perceived by normal binocular vision.
Prospective
Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
Perspective
An understanding of how aspects of a subject relate to each other and to the whole
A perspective of history.
A need to view the problem in the proper perspective.
Prospective
A study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future
Perspective
Subjective evaluation of relative significance; a point of view
The perspective of the displaced homemaker.
Prospective
(grammar) Indicating grammatically an activity about to begin.
What some other languages convey with prospective aspect, English conveys with expressions like going to drive the car home.
Perspective
The ability to perceive things in their actual interrelations or comparative importance
Tried to keep my perspective throughout the crisis.
Prospective
(obsolete) The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
Perspective
The technique of representing three-dimensional objects and depth relationships on a two-dimensional surface.
Prospective
(obsolete) A perspective glass.
Perspective
Of, relating to, seen, or represented in perspective.
Prospective
A prospective (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc.
Would you like to show the prospective around?
I'm meeting the prospectives at 3.
Perspective
A view, vista or outlook.
Prospective
Of or pertaining to a prospect; furnishing a prospect; perspective.
Time's long and dark prospective glass.
Perspective
The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision.
Prospective
Looking forward in time; acting with foresight; - opposed to retrospective.
The French king of Sweden are circumspect, industrious, and prospective, too, in this affair.
Perspective
The technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
Prospective
Being within view or consideration, as a future event or contingency; relating to the future: expected; as, a prospective benefit.
Points on which the promises, at the time of ordination, had no prospective bearing.
Perspective
(dated) An artwork that represents three-dimensional objects in this way.
Prospective
The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
Perspective
(figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
Prospective
A perspective glass.
Perspective
The ability to consider things in such relative perspective.
Prospective
Concerned with or related to the future;
Prospective earnings
A prospective mother
The statute is solely prospective in operation
Perspective
A perspective glass.
Prospective
Anticipated for the near future;
The prospective students
His prospective bride
Perspective
A sound recording technique to adjust and integrate sound sources seemingly naturally.
Perspective
Of, in or relating to perspective.
A perspective drawing
Perspective
(obsolete) Providing visual aid; of or relating to the science of vision; optical.
Perspective
Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.
Perspective
Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws, of perspective.
Perspective
A glass through which objects are viewed.
Perspective
That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista.
Perspective
The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognized them as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, aërial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects.
Aërial perspective is the expression of space by any means whatsoever, sharpness of edge, vividness of color, etc.
Perspective
The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; - called also linear perspective.
Perspective
A drawing in linear perspective.
Perspective
A way of regarding situations or topics etc.;
Consider what follows from the positivist view
Perspective
The appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
