constantive

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

constant +‎ -ive

Adjective[edit]

constantive (not comparable)

  1. (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.
  2. (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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