constitutive Definition
con·sti·tu·tive (kän′stə to̵̅o̅t′iv, -tyo̵̅o̅t′-; kən stic̸h′o̵̅o̅ tiv′)
adjective
- having power to establish, appoint, or enact
- making a thing what it is; basic
- forming a part (of); constituent; component
Etymology: LL constitutivus: see constitute
constitutive Related Forms
con′·sti·tu′·tively adverb
constitutive Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- identity: Consciousness, for Collins, is both an emergent property and constitutive of personal identity.
- life: Theory and practice are shown to be interwoven, and constitutive of social life.
- meaning: In the one case, markup is constitutive of the meaning; in the other, it is interpretive.
- person: This esteem positively values the disproportion constitutive of every person.
- event: Chisholm objects to inclusion of times as constitutive of particular events since he wants to avoid commitment to times as entities.
- democracy: This has two facets: first, the communist ' other ' was constitutive of democracy, but now communism is no more.
Modifies a noun
- equation: This opens up possibilities for simulating flow fields without the need of a closed form constitutive equation.
- activation: Here, we show that p120 ablation in NIH3T3 cells induces constitutive activation of RhoA.
- promoter: By contrast a constitutive human promoter, beta actin, was less effected.
- expression: Both promoters have been shown to drive constitutive expression of the encoded proteins in genetically modified maize.
- element: Language is a constitutive element of a people's cultural identity.
- model: A constitutive model for natural soils has been developed.
Modifying Another Word
- mutually: The painting becomes a dance, where artist and artwork are mutually constitutive.
- partly: In contrast, it is argued in this paper that legal relations are partly constitutive of reality.
- not: Therefore, programs by themselves are not constitutive of nor sufficient for minds.
- partially: It is, within virtue ethics, already conceived of as something of which virtue is at least partially constitutive.
- also: The interesting question is whether what God is in revelation is also constitutive for who God is in self-being.
- fundamentally: Equally, they recognize the fundamentally constitutive nature of language.
Used with adjective complement
regard: Being struck by actuality is what we like to regard as constitutive of the actuality of the actual.
Browse dictionary entries near constitutive
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- ‹ constitutional question
- ‹ constitutional law
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