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attitudinal

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Etymology

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From Italian attitudine +‎ -al.[1] By surface analysis, attitude +‎ -in- +‎ -al.

Adjective

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attitudinal (not comparable)

  1. Expressive of or pertaining to attitude.

Noun

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attitudinal (plural attitudinals)

  1. (linguistics, specifically conlanging) A particle that conveys the emotion, tone, mood, or feeling of the speaker.
    • 1997, John Woldemar Cowan, The Complete Lojban Language, →ISBN, page 285:
      The simplest way to use attitudinals is to place them at the beginning of a text. In that case, they express the speaker's prevailing attitude.

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References

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  1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.