präventiver

Präventiver is the comparative form of the German adjective präventiv, used to describe something that is more oriented toward prevention. As a grammatical form, it serves to compare preventive qualities in actions, policies, or strategies rather than to name a distinct concept on its own.

In practice, präventiver appears in domains such as public health, medicine, safety engineering, education, and policy making. Examples include 'ein präventiver Ansatz' (a preventive approach) and 'eine noch präventivere Strategie' (an even more preventive strategy). In many contexts, speakers prefer phrases like 'noch stärker präventiv' to avoid inflected comparative noun phrases.

There is no widely used standalone noun 'der Präventiver'; instead, the concept is typically expressed with nouns such as Prävention, präventive Maßnahme, or präventive Strategie. The adjective form is mainly used attributively or predicatively and follows the usual German adjective declension rules.

Etymology and related terms: präventiver is derived from präventiv, which itself comes from Latin praevenire, meaning to anticipate or prevent. Related terms include Prävention (prevention) and präventive Medizin (preventive medicine).