What is another word for constitutive?

Pronunciation: [kˈɒnstɪtjˌuːtɪv] (IPA)

The word "constitutive" is often used to describe something that is essential or inherent to the nature of something. Some synonyms for "constitutive" include fundamental, integral, inherent, intrinsic, necessary, and vital. These words convey a sense of critical importance and signify something that is essential and cannot be removed without fundamentally changing the thing itself. Other related words include basic, innate, primary, structural, foundational, and underlying. These synonyms all express the idea that a thing's essential nature is what gives it its identity and cannot be separated from it.

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The word "constitutive" pertains to something that is essential or that makes up the core or foundation of something. Its antonyms, therefore, are words that describe the opposite of that or something that is non-essential or non-constitutive. Antonyms for constitutive may include words such as accessory, optional, incidental, extraneous, or peripheral. These words describe things that are not necessary for the existence or composition of something, but rather are simply supplementary or secondary. Thus, by understanding the antonyms of constitutive, we can get a better sense of what is truly essential and what is merely added for additional value or effect.

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Usage examples for Constitutive

Differentia being seldom taken to mean the whole of the peculiarities constitutive of the species, but some one of those peculiarities only, a complete definition would be per genus et differentias, rather than differentiam.
"A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)"
John Stuart Mill
To imagine this to have been one of the principal objects of the institution, or to suppose that, on this hard condition, their various privileges and exemptions were granted to them, is so far from the reality of the fact, that it would only be necessary to read with attention the 26th article of the quoted royal decree of creation, in order more correctly to comprehend the origin and constitutive system of this political body.
"The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes"
Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes
A constitutive act, may, certainly, be so formed, as to need no declaration of rights.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson

Famous quotes with Constitutive

  • Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
    Michel Foucault
  • The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • A philosophy does not play its role as an actor during a recital; it interacts with other philosophies and with other facts, and it cannot know the results of the interaction between itself and other world visions.Affected as they are by a constitutive solipsism, philosophies can say everything about the world they design and very little about the world they help to construct.
    Umberto Eco
  • The American death penalty exists and it withstands in America because it was a basic and constitutive element of its birth and development. Of the famous 102 «Wandering Fathers» that for first they disembarked from the «Mayflower» in that Continent not to ransack the wealths as they made Spaniards and Portuguese in Mexico and in America of the South, but to build you a new and free society, around the two bystanders they were leftovers of jail that ran away the Justice and the jails of Europe, and a bystander they were men that liberty looked for, and above all that religious. The first ones had in pocket the gun, the seconds the Bible, but in his/her Calvinist version that of the retaliation, based on the conception of a God executioner that demands the death of whom without correct motive it gives it.
    Indro Montanelli

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