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Definition of Disintegrative
1. Adjective. Tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts.
Derivative terms: Disintegrate, Disintegrate
Antonyms: Integrative
Definition of Disintegrative
1. Adjective. Losing cohesion or unity. ¹
2. Adjective. (psychology) Having disorganized psychological and behavioral processes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disintegrative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disintegrative
Literary usage of Disintegrative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Morbid Fears and Compulsions: Their Psychology and Psychoanalytic Treatment by Horace Westlake Frink (1918)
"... an adjustment was brought about and a cure resulted from an analysis that was
more largely diagnostic than disintegrative. None of her complexes were ..."
2. Chemical Pathology: Being a Discussion of General Pathology from the by Harry Gideon Wells (1914)
"When all are destroyed at once, as by strong chemicals or by heat, the customary
disintegrative changes do not take place. If, however, not all the enzymes ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"It is manifest that where disintegrative changes of this kind are occurring under
the influence of the serum, opsonic effects will be more or less thrust ..."
4. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"As will be seen in the figures the struggles of the individual zooid eventually
free its sister and cousin zooids, but this process of disintegrative ..."
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