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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 ]

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

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.

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 ...