STANDPOINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does standpoint mean? 

• STANDPOINT (noun)
  The noun STANDPOINT has 1 sense:

1. a mental position from which things are viewed

  Familiarity information: STANDPOINT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STANDPOINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mental position from which things are viewed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

point of view; stand; standpoint; viewpoint

Context example:

teaching history gave him a special point of view toward current events

Hypernyms ("standpoint" is a kind of...):

position; posture; stance (a rationalized mental attitude)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "standpoint"):

cityscape (a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area)

landscape (an extensive mental viewpoint)

angle; slant (a biased way of looking at or presenting something)

complexion (a point of view or general attitude or inclination)

 Context examples 

Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Using voltage instead of pressure to drive cooling is simpler from an engineering standpoint, and allows existing design principles to be repurposed without the need for magnets.

(Electronic solid could reduce carbon emissions in fridges and air conditioners, University of Cambridge)

Yet here, day after day for an hour after nones, and for an hour before vespers, he found himself in close communion with three maidens, all young, all fair, and all therefore doubly dangerous from the monkish standpoint.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)