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Constructiveness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The characteristic of being constructive.

n. creativity, the capacity to invent.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Tendency or ability to form or construct.

n. The faculty which enables one to construct, as in mechanical, artistic, or literary matters.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In phrenology, the tendency to construct in general, supposed not to be an independent faculty, but to take its particular direction from other faculties. It is said to be large in painters, sculptors, mechanicians, and architects. See cut under phrenology.

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n. the quality of serving to build or improve

Word Usage

"The instinct of constructiveness, which is one of the chief incentives to artistic creation, can find in scientific systems a satisfaction more massive than any epic poem."

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quality

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Constructiveness (Phrenology)

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