compositive

Adjective

compositive (comparative more compositive, superlative most compositive)

1. 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 ihmiskunta (mankind) and ihmissuhde (personal relationship).2015, Jukka K. Korpela, Handbook of Finnish
2. 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, page 53
   • From simple features of mental life familiar to us all, compositive theory infers more complex social phenomena in very general terms2020, Karl Mittermaier, The Hand Behind the Invisible Hand