compositive
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Latin compositivus, from com- (“together”) + positus (“placed”).
Adjective
[edit]compositive (comparative more compositive, superlative most compositive)
- Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded.
- 2010, Jon McGinnis, Avicenna, page 115:
- The compositive imagination is thus characterized for Avicenna by its power “to combine and separate parts of sensible objects with other parts.”
- 2015, Jukka K. Korpela, Handbook of Finnish:
- As a common example, nouns and adjective ending with nen normally have a compositive form ending with s instead of nen. For example, ihminen (human being) has the compositive form ihmis, appearing in words like ihmiskunta (mankind) and ihmissuhde (personal relationship).
- Characterized by forming an understanding through the accumulation or combination of details, as opposed to deduction from a theoretical model.
- 2018, Ralph M. McInerny, Being and Predication, page 53:
- A compositive rational mode is had in this way when we reason from causes to effects; the resolutive rational mode is in the opposite direction, from effects to causes.
- 2020, Karl Mittermaier, The Hand Behind the Invisible Hand:
- From simple features of mental life familiar to us all, compositive theory infers more complex social phenomena in very general terms
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “compositive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]compositive