[f. as prec. + -NESS.] Constructive quality or capacity. (Introduced as a Phrenological term for a faculty with its appropriate ‘organ.’)
1815. Edin. Rev., XXV. 235. To the Order of Feelings … belong the following species … 7. Constructiveness.
1828. Coombe, Const. Man, ii. § 5. Constructiveness is given,—and materials for constructing artificial habitations, raiment, ships.
1882. Macm. Mag., XLVI. 207/1. The constructiveness of his teaching as opposed to the destructiveness of the school … which has prevailed for so many years.
