orientative

Serving to orient or orientate.

An activities coordinator named Suzy Ghosh came by with orientative tidings and registration forms for the afternoon’s outings in Newport, Rhode Island.

In our view, this approach to care ethics can be operationalized through an innovative account of two basic orientative principles and their systemic interrelation: autonomy, on the one hand, and the principle of vulnerability, on the other.

Transmitting the sense of orientation towards an entity.

The orientative case indicates that an entity or event is oriented towards or around the referent.