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motiveness

motiveness noun: ability to move; mobility.

Noun

motiveness (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Ability to move; mobility.
    • The lower animals can obviously associate with great readiness: and as to motiveness, they frequently discover a degree of agility to which man can make no pretensions.1828, John Ballantyne, An Examination of the Human Mind, page 427

Origin of motiveness

From motive + -ness.

Questions about motiveness

What does motiveness mean?
Motiveness means ability to move; mobility.
What part of speech is motiveness?
Motiveness is a noun.

Words near motiveness in the dictionary

  1. motive powers
  2. motived
  3. motiveless
  4. motivelessly
  5. motivelessness
  6. motiveness
  7. motives
  8. motivi
  9. motivic
  10. motivically
  11. motiving

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