What is "presentiveness"

Presentive \Pre*sent"ive\, a. (Philol.) Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic.

How greatly the word ``will'' is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries.
--Earle. [1913 Webster] -- Pre*sent"ive*ly, adv. -- Pre*sent"ive*ness, n.