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constructiveness

constructiveness

6.7
Being helpful by suggesting solutions and ways to improve things
  • noun
  • /kənˈstrʌktɪvnəs/
translation icon : constructividad
  • The teacher praised the students for their constructiveness in finding ways to improve their group project.

Examples

  • However, in this case, everything said in the keynote was quite moderate and full of a spirit of constructiveness and positivity.

    Blog text (11)
  • The team's constructiveness helped them resolve conflicts and create a better working environment.

  • Since then, the ongoing rally in stocks and the EURUSD has been predicated on the "constructiveness" of the talks actually being real.

    Blog text (23)
  • The model provides symmetry to a perspective that can include function and dysfunction, constructiveness and destructiveness, growth and deterioration, and decline and regeneration.

    Academic text (1997)
  • However, the opportunities of our education system enable the application of a program of the same level to all of the students, referring to the constructiveness of educational institutions in mother tongue instruction (Yildiz, 2008: 50).

    Academic text (2010)
  • The Constructivist Learning Environment Survey (CLES) is an instrument that measures learners' degree of constructing their own knowledge and provides student perception of the nature of a classroom with respect to constructiveness (Taylor, Fisher, & Fisher, 1997).

    Academic text (2009)
  • Her constructiveness during the meeting led to practical solutions for the project's challenges.

Synonyms

helpfulness
vsconstructiveness
3 2.3

Willingness to support other people

aims to improve situations and solve problems rather than just offer aid
productiveness
vsconstructiveness
1 3.4

The amount of useful work a person or thing does

focuses on improving and resolving issues positively rather than just completing tasks

Antonyms

57 4.7

A habit of expecting bad things and saying no to ideas

A tendency to cause damage to people or things

How Constructive

usefulness
40 1.6
constructiveness
6.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

constructiveness = constructive (transparent) = construct + ive + ness

Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'constructive', yielding the quality/state; the derivation is regular and predictable.

Etymology

Constructiveness starts with construct, which comes from old Latin parts meaning 'together' and 'to build', and you can see the same idea in words like construction and structure. So, to be constructive is to 'build' helpful ideas or solutions, and constructiveness is the quality of doing that.