Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to aggregation; taken together; collective.
- Tending to aggregate; gregarious; social.
- In social.: Tending toward a center of density, as concentration of population.
- Tending to combine small groups into large organizations, as hordes into tribes or small corporations into great corporations and ‘trusts.’
Wiktionary
- adj. By, toward, or of aggregation; aggregational.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Taken together; collective.
- adj. rare Gregarious; social.
- adj. tending to gather into a mass.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole
Etymologies
- From aggregate and -ive. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The differences are enacted into differences between the traditions of what we will call aggregative political processes, on the one hand, and integrative political processes, on the other.”
“Now Flood and Rose say, Don't worry, be happy because we can't forecast aggregative stock index changes either (I am not making this up).”
“That still doesn't explain why the most influential journalists in the most powerful country (and one where freedom of the press is enshrined in its founding document) in the world decided to outsource their work to a aggregative hack with a blatant conservative bias.”
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“It is a constructive approach, proceeding from reasoning about the constituents of society, to aggregative conclusions about the wholes that are constituted by these individuals.”
“I treaded water, producing a modification of Tobin's dynamic aggregative model in preparation for his Festschrift in autumn 1986.”
“The role equality plays in motivating a special concern for the worst off is just the idea of equal consideration that will be a feature of every plausible moral system, including aggregative views like pure utilitarianism.”
“What distinguishes Maximin from the more aggregative views is not a more substantive commitment to equality, but a view about the separateness of persons that refuses to see the poor condition of one person as “compensated for” by augmenting the riches of another, already well off.”
“National polls matter significantly, in that national voting performance matters in an aggregative way.”
“How can we find any rational basis for making such aggregative judgements as 'the society prefers this to that', or, 'the society should choose this over the other', or 'this is socially right'?”
“I read Rawls as a very very smart and intellectually honest guy, determined to resurrect Kant, avoid the aggregative problems of consequentialism, and move at least one step beyond Sidgwick.”
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