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Answer for the clue "The quality of serving to build or improve ", 16 letters:
constructiveness

Word definitions for constructiveness in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of serving to build or improve [ant: destructiveness ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Constructiveness is a faculty from the discredited pseudoscience discipline of phrenology . Constructiveness is the seat of initiative, creativity and originality. It confers the capacity to plan and construct, to design and invent, to organise and devise ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Constructiveness \Con*struct"ive*ness\, n. Tendency or ability to form or construct. (Phren.) The faculty which enables one to construct, as in mechanical, artistic, or literary matters.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The characteristic of being constructive. 2 (''phrenology'') creativity, the capacity to invent.