constantive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Indicating a state of affairs with no additional connotations; denotational.
adj
Composed of elements that are each expressible by a unary polynomial.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Austin describes this view of language as mere statement as constantive and argues that language has a function beyond the constantive."
- "When a sentence is heard, we are responsible for deciding if the sentence is performative, constantive, or both."
- "Thermodynamic properties are additive quantities. Spectroscopic properties are constantive quantities. Wavefunctions, statistical mechanical partition functions, and probabilities are multiplicative quantities."