Compositive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Compositive is an adjective meaning Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded.
Meaning
Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded.
More Meanings
- Characterized by forming an understanding through the accumulation or combination of details, as opposed to deduction from a theoretical model.
Example Sentences
From simple features of mental life familiar to us all, compositive theory infers more complex social phenomena in very general terms
The compositive imagination is thus characterized for Avicenna by its power “to combine and separate parts of sensible objects with other parts.”
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.
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).
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include combinational, compositional, complicative, compotatory, cominal, complemental.
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