Meaning

3 senses
  1. An assessment test that presents subjects with some sort of stimulus to which they react by projecting or imagining details.

  2. A projective member of a category.

  3. A statement about a conditional or potential state of affairs, as opposed to one about a situation that actually exists or existed.

Origin

Formed by the suffixation of prōiect- (the perfect passive participial stem of the Classic

Formed by the suffixation of prōiect- (the perfect passive participial stem of the Classical Latin prōiciō, whence the English verb project) with the English -ive, forming project + -ive; however, compare the post-Classical Latin prōiectīvus (“relating to purging”).

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