prospectivities

Noun

prospectivity (countable and uncountable, plural prospectivities)

1. The state of being prospective rather than retrospective.
   • Four properties that stand out as descriptive of behavior at its own level are agency, prospectivity, the search for order in the world, and flexibility.2000, Eleanor Jack Gibson, Anne D. Pick, An Ecological Approach to Perceptual Learning and Development, →ISBN
2. The quality of being or having a likely location in which to prospect for minerals.
   • A further ramification of the regional observations concems diamond prospectivity.2006, Manitoba. Geological Survey, Report of Activities, page 83
3. A projective relationship between a line and itself by projecting onto an intersecting line from a point on another line that intersects at the same point, and then back on to the first line from a different point on the first intersecting line.
   • Schur bases his definitions of equality, of addition and multiplication of projective segments, upon the correspondence known as ' prospectivity,' and, at first, avails himself only of the axioms of connection and of order [Shur's postulates 1. to 8.];1919, Ludwik Silberstein, Projective Vector Algebra