attitudinal

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

attitudinal (not comparable)

  1. Expressive of or pertaining to attitude.
    • 1984 February 11, Christine Guilfoy, “200 Meet With Providence Police”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 29, page 6:
      While Noice is generally positive about the police department he thinks that there are attitudinal problems among some of the rank and file.

Noun

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

  1. ^ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Attitudinal”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
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