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POV en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. Initialism of point of view. ▸ 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. 1988, Kristin Thompson, Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 308:
    • The film takes us immediately to Oscar’s pov, complete with momentary ‘blackouts’ as he blinks. […] Soon, still from Oscar’s pov, he begins lighting up a form of hallucinatory drug, and after a seemingly interminable number of attempts, begins to achieve the high he was seeking. 2022, Peter C. Pugsley, Ben McCann, The Cinematic Influence: Interaction and Exchange Between the Cinemas of France and Japan, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN:
    • Who would dare theorize the history and practice of jazz without taking into account its significant composers, vocalists and instrumentalists from their pov? 2022, Nigel Hamilton, “The Missing Key: Theorizing Modern Historical Biography”, in Hans Renders, David Veltman, editors, Fear of Theory: Towards a New Theoretical Justification of Biography, Brill, →ISBN, part I (Reflections on Theory and Biography), page 39:
    • From his pov, we see Boom Boom Grossman, 60, huge ex-pug Jack Dempsey look-alike with meat-hook hands and meat-pie face. 1993, Richard Price, 3 Screenplays, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 261:
    • A female point-of-view (pov) character is not necessarily written from the perspective of a female gaze. […] A pov character is a character through whose eyes and perspective we follow the action of the story. 2015, Kate Elliott, The Very Best of Kate Elliott, Tachyon Publications, →ISBN, page 344:
    • When one of the girls goes down into the basement, she is devoured by the POV accompanied by audio portions of werewolfish sounds. 1999, Laurence A. Rickels, The vampire lectures, page 259:
  2. (broadly) Initialism of point of view. ▸ The (cognitive, mental, or emotional) viewpoint of a certain person; (attributively) from that viewpoint. ▸ 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 do I fix it? 2026 March 20, Brit Dawson, “‘I went on a cortisol ‘detox’ to tackle my spiralling anxiety — here’s what happened’”, in Cosmopolitan:
  3. (qualifier:physically) Initialism of point of view. ▸ The vantage point of a particular person; (attributively) from that vantage point.
    • POV videos
    • Ms. Brier specializes in point of view, or P.O.V., videos that confront relatable, often hateable characters, with a subtle sneer, gleefully rubbery body and arch delivery of generational catchphrases like “slay, queen” and “I got you,” often repeated for effect. 2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2023:
    • The earliest discovered dwerking video was shared by a TikToker named @mojothewzzrd back in May. Like many dwerking videos, this original video has an unserious tone, given away by its POV caption. 2025 July 8, Know Your Meme:
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of privately owned vehicle.
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of percentage of volume, a type of securities trading algorithm.

Forms

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Antonyms

point-of-viewlessness · eticness · point-of-viewlessness · eticness · NPOV · NPOV

Coordinates

FPV · FPS · RPV

Relateds

PoV · p.o.v. · P.O.V. · PoV · pov · p.o.v. · PoV · P.O.V. · p.o.v. · pov · pov · P.O.V.

Synonyms

viewpoint · viewpoint

Translations (1)

cmn 第一視角 /第一视角 (attributively: from that vantage point of a particular person)

wikidata: Q12558574 · wikidata: Q12558574