单词 | protensity |
释义 | protensityn. Chiefly Philosophy and Psychology. The quality of taking up time; the fact of having duration. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [noun] lengtha1240 date?1316 durationc1384 hautesse1399 quantity?a1425 periodc1475 tracta1513 allowance1526 continuance1530 wideness1535 continue1556 protense1590 countenance1592 stay1595 standing1600 dimension1605 longanimity1607 longinquity1607 insisture1609 existence1615 unprivationa1628 continuity1646 protension1654 measure1658 course1665 contention1666 propagation1741 protensity1886 1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 65/2 The fixation of attention..is probably not in the first instance perceived as time, i.e. as continuous ‘protensity’, to use a term of Hamilton's. 1889 Mind 14 112 There is a respectable body of evidence for the existence of this characteristic of all sensation [sc. extensity]; evidence too, that it shows it to be in all respects co-ordinate with intensity and protensity. 1920 S. Alexander Space, Time & Deity II. 130 The ‘protensity’ of sensation is nothing but its continuance, that is, again, a continuous repetition of the sensation in time. 1964 Jakobson & Halle in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 99 The tense/lax opposition should..be..viewed as a separate, ‘protensity’ feature which..corresponds to the quantity features in the prosodic field. 2000 J. E. Roeckelein Concept of Time Psychol. 52 The definition of time..refers to a fundamental directional aspect of experience, based on direct experience of the protensity (duration) of sensation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1886 |
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