English
projectivism
From projective + -ism.
Formed from projective + -ism
Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- ‘to throw’
Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁ként
Latin iaciō ‘throw, hurl’
Latin prōiciō ‘to throw, thrust, drive, fling or hurl forth,…’
English projective
Today it means
noun A philosophy in which the qualities of an object are 'projected' onto it as though they actually belong to it.
Sources
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