actative
/ˈæktətɪv/
actative adjective: serving to act.
Adjective
actative (comparative more actative, superlative most actative)
- Serving to act.
- Firstly then, the MENS may be said to be subject to the immotions of contemplation and volition, corresponding to, but not similar to, the receptative and actative natures of the ANIMUS, which have been regarded as subject to cognitions and impulses.1878, William N. Haggard, Creation, as a Divine Synthesis, London, Recognition XV, page 100
- Perhaps the most acute expression of the different structures of time and being within philosophy can be found in the actative dimension which provides the difference between Heraclitus and Plato.1991, Andrew Benjamin, “The Decline of Art: Benjamin's Aura” (chapter 9), in Art, Mimesis, and the Avant-garde: Aspects of a philosophy of difference, London: Routledge, pages 148-149
Noun
actative (plural actatives)
- Something that serves to act.
- Whose are these hands? Are they really Blanchot’s? How could Blanchot be so careless as to reinstate the actative of “writing” when all action had given way to absence?2005, Dimitris Vardoulakis, “"What terrifying complicity" Jean Paul as Colocutor”, in Leslie Hill, Brian Nelson, Dimitris Vardoulakis, editors, After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy...
- The ineliminable presence of action and with it of inscribed presence of the actative in this formulation should not therefore pass unnoticed.1998, Andrew Benajamin, “Shoah, remembrance and the abeyance of fate: Walter Benjamin's 'fate and character'”, in Laura Marcus, Lynda Nead, editors, The Actuality of Walter Benjamin, Lawrence &...
Examples of actative in a sentence
- And yet, if we perceive the former as being grounded in a certain intentionality, we should recognise the actative dimension to the gaze itself.2002, Neil Leach, “Belonging: Towards a Theory of Identification with Space”, in Jean Hillier, Emma Rooksby, editors, Habitus: A Sense of...
- Rather than a substantative, having an essence that can be identified, holiness or spirituality is better termed an actative.2016, Helen Hills, “Indroduction: openings”, in The matter of miracles : Neapolitan baroque architecture and sanctity, Manchester...
Forms of actative
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more actative |
| superlative | most actative |
| Noun | |
| plural | actatives |
Origin of actative
From act + -ative.
Questions about actative
- What does actative mean?
- Actative means serving to act.
- How do you use actative in a sentence?
- And yet, if we perceive the former as being grounded in a certain intentionality, we should recognise the actative dimension to the gaze itself.
- What part of speech is actative?
- Actative can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce actative?
- Actative is pronounced /ˈæktətɪv/.
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