constantive

Adjective

1. Indicating a state of affairs with no additional connotations; denotational.
   • 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. - 2009, James W. Koschoreck, Autumn K. Tooms, Sexuality...
   • Austin describes this view of language as mere statement as constantive and argues that language has a function beyond the constantive. - 2011, D. Soyini Madison, Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance,...
   • When a sentence is heard, we are responsible for deciding if the sentence is performative, constantive, or both. - 2016, Rosemary Papa, Danielle M. Eadens, Daniel W. Eadens, Social Justice Instruction: Empowerment on...
2. Composed of elements that are each expressible by a unary polynomial.
   • Thermodynamic properties are additive quantities. Spectroscopic properties are constantive quantities. Wavefunctions, statistical mechanical partition functions, and probabilities are multiplicative quantities. - 1993,...