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   constitutive

   /kənˈstɪtjʊtɪv/

   adjective

   • 1. having the power to establish or give organized existence to something: "the state began to exercise a new and constitutive function"
   • 2. forming a part or constituent of something: "poverty is a constitutive element of a particular form of economic growth"
   • ▪ forming an essential element of something: "language is constitutive of thought"
   • 3. relating to an enzyme or enzyme system that is continuously produced in an organism, regardless of the needs of cells.

   Derivatives

   • 1. constitutively adverb

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