constantive

Adjective

constantive (not comparable)

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 Matters: Paradigms and Policies for Educational Leaders, →ISBN
   • 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, →ISBN, page 178
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, Jerry Ray Dias, Molecular orbital calculations using chemical graph theory, page 105