constitutive
2
8.8
- adjective
- /ˈkɒnstɪtjuːtɪv/
:
constitutivo
- Fairness and justice are constitutive principles that help build a strong community.
- constitutive model
- constitutive element
- mutually constitutive
We're always caught up within the world that we have a constitutive role in disclosing.
- We're always caught up within the world that we have a constitutive role in disclosing.
- The others play a constitutive role in this.
- That's, you know, we think of that as as diagnostic of success, not as constitutive of success.
- But it can't have pure duty within it, so to speak, as constitutive of its entire structure of motivation.
Examples
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Territorial and social rules are mutually constitutive, which is the concrete meaning of the new, often overused term spatiality.
Academic text (1993) -
In this sense, social philosophy presupposes conflict as a constitutive element of associated life.
Academic text (2017) -
The others play a constitutive role in this.
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That idea was not the property of one particular country, but it was constitutive of any good society.
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The argument has been that place and space are constitutive of nature, social relations, and meaning.
Academic text (1993) -
We are individuals, but friendship and sociability are constitutive aspects of our flourishing.
Academic text (2008) -
TNCs' internal arrangements are constitutive of informational, commercial, and cultural transnational flows simultaneously.
Academic text (1999) -
Their work has been enormously helpful in identifying excess, repetition, and muteness as constitutive elements of the melodramatic text.
Academic text (1993) -
Friendship and sociability are constitutive aspects of our happiness and well-being.
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Trust is constitutive of any successful partnership, as it establishes a foundation for collaboration.
Synonyms
26
3.9
Forming a natural, basic part of something's structure or character
15
6.5
Forming a necessary part of something's structure
3
5.9
A natural and lasting part of a person's body or mind
How Essential
50
2.4
20
4.6
2
8.8
∞
1.0
592
3.3
6
6.3
28
6.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
constitutive = constitute (transparent) = constitute + ive
Formed by the productive adjective suffix '-ive' added to the verb 'constitute', so the adjectival meaning 'serving to constitute' is directly predictable.
Etymology
The word constitutive comes from the Latin constituere, which means 'to set up', and it shares the same root as constitute and constitution. So something constitutive is a basic part that 'sets up' or makes the whole, and can 'give life to' or create something.