"constitutive feature" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an element or feature that is part of a larger whole and necessary for its definition or identity. For example, you could say "Lovely weather is a constitutive feature of summertime."
Rationality is there cited as the constitutive feature of the mental, while closure is cited as the constitutive feature of the physical.
From antiquity onward, equality has been considered a constitutive feature of justice.
Globalization is a constitutive feature of the modern world, and modern history includes many examples of globalization (Giddens 1990).
Attention to these proximate and more distal users in the valuation process is a complex and constitutive feature of the work of health technology transfer.
But since they claim that intentionality in turn derives from phenomenal consciousness, they are not quite faithful to the spirit of Brentano's thesis that intentionality is the constitutive feature of the mental.
We conclude that teacher confidence is a function – and a constitutive feature – of teacher professional capital, and that professional learning through mentoring is one way of building this vital professional attribute.
The constitutive features of a mystery society were common meals, dances, and ceremonies, especially initiation rites.
Intentionality is commonly divided into three constitutive features.
Moreover, they are constitutive features of social relationships that people find good.
Consequently, its integration into the human right framework would enable the protection of constitutive features of human beings that are not being entirely protected by existing rights.
In his discussion of Gilbert's view, Bratman (1999, chap. 7) rejects the claim that mutual obligations and entitlements are constitutive features of joint action.
