Formative vs Shaping - What's the difference?
formative | shaping | Synonyms |
Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
Capable of forming something.
(biology) Capable of producing new tissue.
(grammar) Pertaining to the inflection of words.
The action of the verb to shape .
* 1996 , Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change
(psychology) A method of positive reinforcement of behaviour patterns in operant conditioning.
Formative is a synonym of shaping.
As nouns the difference between formative and shaping
is that formative is (grammar) a language unit that has morphological function while shaping is the action of the verb to shape .As an adjective formative
is of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.As a verb shaping is
.formative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- My formative years were spent in an inner city.
Derived terms
* formativenessshaping
English
Noun
(en noun)- In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.
