constantive
English
Etymology
constant + -ive
Adjective
constantive (not comparable)
- (linguistics) Indicating a state of affairs with no additional connotations; denotational.
- 2009, James W. Koschoreck, Autumn K. Tooms, Sexuality Matters: Paradigms and Policies for Educational Leaders, →ISBN:
- There are different kinds of speech acts. The two that play the biggest part in the negotiation dance are constantive speech acts and performative speech acts.
- 2011, D. Soyini Madison, Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance, →ISBN, page 178:
- Austin describes this view of language as mere statement as constantive and argues that language has a function beyond the constantive.
- 2016, Rosemary Papa, Danielle M. Eadens, Daniel W. Eadens, Social Justice Instruction: Empowerment on the Chalkboard, →ISBN, page 67:
- When a sentence is heard, we are responsible for deciding if the sentence is performative, constantive, or both.
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- (mathematics) Composed of elements that are each expressible by a unary polynomial.
- 1993, Jerry Ray Dias, Molecular orbital calculations using chemical graph theory, page 105:
- Thermodynamic properties are additive quantities. Spectroscopic properties are constantive quantities. Wavefunctions, statistical mechanical partition functions, and probabilities are multiplicative quantities.
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Anagrams
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