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comportmental

comportmental adjective: of or pertaining to comportment or the act of comporting; behavioural; praxeological.

Adjective

comportmental (not comparable)

  1. (formal) Of or pertaining to comportment or the act of comporting; behavioural; praxeological.
    • This is to say that the form of our epistemic receptivity to the world is behavioral, or comportmental, to use a term with the proper resonances.
    • Our perceptual space is at root a comportmental space, centering on the body, and knowing a location in ego-centric terms is a behavioral knowledge expressed actively.
    • As it was part of this section (and will be part of the next section) to show, the meaning of such terms as "solid," "mountain," or "water" can be given in comportmental terms: motion ceases at this point, or is restricted there.1997, Michael O'Donovan-Anderson, Content and Comportment: Embodiment and the Epistemic Availability of the World, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing - The Michigan University Press, pages 17 • 109 • 119

Origin of comportmental

From comportment + -al.

Questions about comportmental

What does comportmental mean?
Comportmental means of or pertaining to comportment or the act of comporting; behavioural; praxeological.
What part of speech is comportmental?
Comportmental is an adjective.

Words near comportmental in the dictionary

  1. comported
  2. comportest
  3. comporteth
  4. comporting
  5. comportment
  6. comportmental
  7. comportments
  8. comports
  9. compos
  10. compos mentis
  11. composability

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