attitudinal - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Italian attitudine + -al.[1] By surface analysis, attitude + -in- + -al.
attitudinal (not comparable)
- Expressive of or pertaining to attitude.
attitudinal (plural attitudinals)
- (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.
- ^ 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.