characteristics ►noun[mass noun] 1 the action of build- ing something together, typically a large platform or struc- ture: there was the fakery under co-struction. ■ the industry of constructing platforms, challenging norms and questioning realities, etc. ■ the style or method used in the building of something: the concept of intervention is a process of co-struction.■ [count noun] a fakery or other co-struction. 2 the creation of an abstract entity. the right language plays a large part in the creation of an alternative reality and is sometimes co-structed by many people. ■ [count noun] an interpretation or explanation: you could put a carefully co-structed lie into the system. – Derivative co-structional adjective co-structionally adverb – Origin late Middle English: via Old French from Latin constructio(n-), from construere ‘heap together’ (see con- struct and collective)