substitutive

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The concern, I think I, and some other folks who watch this industry have, is that this type of automation is purely substitutive.

From The Verge • Mar. 23, 2021

By contrast, performance-improving innovations either create few new jobs because they’re substitutive, or they destroy jobs through gains in productivity.

From Forbes • Oct. 15, 2014

"Gee, I've found a friend," said Oscar, who once confessed that his troubles revolved around "acute anxieties, ritualistic compulsions, substitutive obsessions and irrational hostilities."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is therefore inconceivable that the blood could receive its normal supply of adrenalin with an apathy of the degree seen in stupor unless some purely hypothetically substitutive excitant were found.

From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by MacCurdy, John T. (John Thompson)

Following Stout, substitutive signs are characterized thus: "a word is an instrument for thinking about the meaning which it expresses; a substitutive sign is a means of not thinking about the meaning which it symbolizes."

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.