comportmental

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adjective

Of or pertaining to comportment or the act of comporting; behavioural; praxeological.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectivecomportmental (not comparable)
  1. formalnot comparableOf or pertaining to comportment or the act of comporting; behavioural; praxeological.

    Thus, it is the comportmental axis of the prefrontal cortex that is responsible in many ways for our humanity. Knowledge of comportmental function leads to broader questions about good and evil.

    2013, David B. Arciniegas & C. Alan Anderson & Christopher M. Filley, Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry, The Cambridge University Press, page 263
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    This is to say that the form of our epistemic receptivity to the world is behavioral, or comportmental, to use a term with the proper resonances. Our perceptual space is at root a comportmental space, centering on the body, and knowing a location in ego-centric terms is a behavioral knowledge expressed actively. As it was part of this section (and will be part of the next section) to show, the meaning of such terms as "solid," "mountain," or "water" can be given in comportmental terms: motion ceases at this point, or is restricted there.

    1997, Michael O'Donovan-Anderson, Content and Comportment: Embodiment and the Epistemic Availability of the World, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing - The Michigan University Press, pages 17 • 109 • 119

    This relation, which we signify by intentionality, is the a priori comportmental character of what we call self-comporting. As structure of comportments, intentionality is itself a structure of the self-comporting subject. It must be said that internationality is not an extant relation between an extant subject and object but a structure that constitutes the comportmental character of the Dasein's behavior as such.

    1988, Martin Heidegger, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, The Indiana University Press - Loomington & Indianapolis, page 61

    Most often, persons who first present with language, comportmental, and visuospatial difficulties are under the age of 65, in contrast to the older age at onset of individuals with amnestic dementia.

    2007, Carole B. Cox, Dementia and Social Work Practice: Research and Interventions

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