| 1. | a specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint: from the point of view of a doctor. |
| 2. | an opinion, attitude, or judgment: He refuses to change his point of view in the matter. |
| 3. | the position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator's outlook from which the events are depicted and by the attitude toward the characters. |
| point of view n. pl. points of view
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point of view
An attitude or standpoint, how one sees or thinks of something. For example, From the manufacturer's point of view, the critical issue is cost. This expression, originally alluding to one's vantage point in seeing a building or painting or other object, dates from the early 1700s.
point of view
in literature, the vantage point from which a story is presented.
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