attitudinal
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Italian attitudine + -al.[1] By surface analysis, attitude + -in- + -al.
Adjective
[edit]attitudinal (not comparable)
- Expressive of or pertaining to attitude.
Noun
[edit]attitudinal (plural attitudinals)
- (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
[edit]- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.