EGAVE

aspect

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 39.75 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Any specific feature, part, or element of something.
    Japan's aging population is an important aspect of its economy.
  2. noun The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
    The stone has a greenish aspect in this light.
  3. noun The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
    in certain aspects [ = in certain respects]
  4. noun A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.
  5. noun One's appearance or expression. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  6. noun Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass.
    The house has a southern aspect, i.e. a position which faces the south.
  7. noun Prospect; outlook.
  8. noun A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event which the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding.

Similar words

prospect vista view expression look scene panorama facial expression facet face

Often followed by

of is ratio to and in that which was

Word family

aspects aspectual

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