Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - perspective

~ n 1 a way of thinking about something which is influenced by the kind of person you are or by your experiences + on  (His father's death gave him a whole new perspective on life.) from the perspective of  (The novel is written from the perspective of a child. | from a...perspective)  (From a white male perspective, it's hard to understand oppression.) 2 a sensible way of judging and comparing situations so that you do not imagine that something is more serious than it really is  (I think Viv's lost all sense of perspective. | get/keep sth in perspective (=judge the importance of something correctly)) 3 a method of drawing a picture that makes objects look solid and shows distance and depth, or the effect this method produces in a picture  (Children's drawings often have no perspective. | in perspective/out of perspective (=drawn with or without the effect of perspective))  (The background is all out of perspective.) 4 a view, especially one that stretches into the distance