compositive
Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded.
Adjective
- Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded.
- The compositive imagination is thus characterized for Avicenna by its power “to combine and separate parts of sensible objects with other parts.” - 2010, Jon McGinnis, Avicenna, page 115:
- 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...
- Characterized by forming an understanding through the accumulation or combination of details, as opposed to deduction from a theoretical model.
- 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. - 2018, Ralph M. McInerny, Being and Predication,...
- From simple features of mental life familiar to us all, compositive theory infers more complex social phenomena in very general terms - 2020, Karl Mittermaier, The Hand Behind the Invisible Hand:
Origin
Latin compositivus, from com- (“together”) + positus (“placed”).