mediative

[ mee-dee-ey-tiv, -uh-tiv ]

adjective

1. mediating; mediatory.

Other Words From

• non·medi·ative adjective
• un·medi·ative adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of mediative¹

First recorded in 1805–15; mediate + -ive

Example Sentences

That on one side, the introverts all calmly adapted to quarantine life a year ago, devoting themselves to mediative baking and puzzle-doing.

From Salon

The differences are apparent in a new study conducted by the digital marketing firm Mediative, which tracked eye movements of 53 people as they did a wide variety of Google searches on desktop computers and perused the results.

From Forbes

But, further, it presumes upon the peculiar forms and conditions of its subjective, looking consciousness, the activities of the mind, being mediative or instrumental to the presentation of the external objective world, and it uses also the activities of life at large, both the bread-and-butter activities and the mechanical inventions, both the political and the industrial organizations, as supplementary aids to its observations; for just science, the looking consciousness, is the end, and this end is presumed to justify every available means.

From Project Gutenberg

The factional life is mediative and instrumental; the personal life is initiative and purposive.

From Project Gutenberg

Such negatives, and in fact all negatives, besides saving life from the narrowness of its various forms, do this positive thing: they open the door of life's wider, nay, of life's infinite opportunity or possibility, and at the same time they render those various definite forms really mediative or instrumental, making them parts in an essentially purposive existence.

From Project Gutenberg