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POV^¹

noun POVs

The (cognitive, mental, or emotional) viewpoint of a certain person; (attributively) from that viewpoint. By this time we might suspect that he had not been looking at her in the previous shot, and that the bird shot had been from his pov.
Similar: viewpoint · Opposite: NPOV, point-of-viewlessness, eticness
broadly A discourse marker signalling "imagine, if you will, being in the situation that this text, photo, or video depicts", even in cases where third-person viewpoint exists; compare also fourth wall joke. I type ‘high cortisol’ into the search bar and keep scrolling. ‘You’re not ugly, you just have cortisol face,’ declares one video. ‘POV you finally drop the cortisol belly,’ reads another. A third screams in caps lock, ‘HOW TO LOWER CORTISOL’. I’m sold. Cortisol is to blame for everything. But how d
Similar: viewpoint · Opposite: NPOV, point-of-viewlessness, eticness
The vantage point of a particular person; (attributively) from that vantage point. POV videos
abbreviation, initialism Initialism of privately owned vehicle
abbreviation, initialism Initialism of percentage of volume, a type of securities trading algorithm.

pov^²

Where it comes from

Abbreviation of poverty or clipping of impoverished.

adjective more pov · most pov · povvo

Australian, colloquial, slang Poor; impoverished; cheap. Phantazeum is still in existence, on Chapel Street (the more pov end, not the yuppy end) ...

noun povs · povvo

slang A poor person; a pauper. Well, mayor, it's based on the cash grab, but instead of money, the cans of food are blown around inside the capsule. The pov inside catches as many as he can to feed his family.

pov^³

noun povs

Alternative letter-case form of POV (“point of view”).

PoV^⁴

noun PoVs

alternative Alternative form of POV (“point of view”). We are going to define the notion of temporal points of view (TPoV). But we need the help of a conception of points of view (PoV) according to which any point of view can be seen as having the following canonical structure: […] Temporal Points of View (TPoV) are PoV with explicit contents EC*, eithe

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Closest in meaning: pwd, wtp, pos, viewpoint, perspective, standpoint, view, vdp, viewpoints, povvo, cheapo, cheapie, el cheapo, cheapass, pooey, dog-cheap

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noun attributively: from that vantage point of a particular person

中文	第一視角 /第一视角 dì-yī shìjiǎo

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@misc{pov_2026,
  title = {pov},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pov},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

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