viewpoint

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

a feeling or opinion about something or someone
attitudeHis attitude towards authority has often got him into trouble.
outlookI wish I could share your positive outlook on life.
frame of mindI need to be in the right frame of mind to talk about this.
approachIt's time to try a different approach to the problem.
viewpointHis viewpoint is his own and does not affect how I think about the issue.
point of viewFrom a strictly financial point of view it looks like a positive change.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Opinions, beliefs and points of view
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anti-drug
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creed
have/take a notion to do somethingidiom
helicopter view
heretical
heretically
hot take
point of view
pole
politics
posture
pretension
prism
proposition
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standpoint | American Dictionary

standpoint
noun[ C ]
us/ˈstændˌpɔɪnt/
a set of beliefs and ideas from which opinions and decisions are formed:
He looks at things from a technological standpoint.
From a fundraising standpoint, he’s been very successful.

Examples of standpoint

standpoint
There is a danger that reflexivity could be used to privilege a theoretical or methodological standpoint by contrasting it to an unreflexive counterpart.
Further more, educationists who wish to intervene and change things, do so from a particular standpoint.
The data from the two tasks were also examined from the standpoint of individual speakers to gain a better understanding of between-speaker effects.
Of particular interest from the compositional standpoint is that the audience member can view and explore explanatory information prior to experiencing the work.
Yet, from the standpoint that insists that 'values', 'opinions' and 'tastes' influence decisions identically, such differences are invisible.
The question of "how early can we tell" is critical from a scientific as well as a policy standpoint.
From a practical standpoint, this task is somewhat outlandish.
Both these standpoints are popular, though convergence appears to be the favourite at present.
A priori, we cannot rank these economies from a welfare standpoint.
The conventions of artistic production become relative, defined only at a particular moment in time from one particular standpoint.
Sufficientarians claim that, from the moral standpoint, being badly off is an all-ornothing state of affairs.
They failed to realize that they were thereby adopting not an economic but a juridical standpoint.
This standpoint has the important advantage of recognizing each person's individual rights, but still making mutually beneficial adjustments possible.
The standpoint alone can enable us to decide whether a subject is to be regarded as particular rather than general.
Still, this well-grounded collection manages to reconstruct the diasporic experience from the migrants' standpoint.
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Collocations withstandpoint

standpoint

These are words often used in combination with standpoint.

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business standpoint
I am supporting this from a businessstandpoint.
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