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progenitiveness

progenitiveness noun: the state or quality of being progenitive (able to produce offspring).

Noun

progenitiveness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being progenitive (able to produce offspring).
    • The Crèche is the place where the poor mothers leave their children in the morning, in the care of some kind women who have a large philo-progenitiveness and no other means of gratifying it than by pet cats or dogs, or other people's children, and go off to their work until night.1849, European Life and Manners, page 164
    • There is another difficulty in the way of accepting metaphysical peculiarity or progenitiveness as isolating species.1867, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, page 293

Origin of progenitiveness

From progenitive + -ness.

Questions about progenitiveness

What does progenitiveness mean?
Progenitiveness means the state or quality of being progenitive (able to produce offspring).
What part of speech is progenitiveness?
Progenitiveness is a noun.

Words near progenitiveness in the dictionary

  1. progenetic
  2. progenies
  3. progenital
  4. progenitally
  5. progenitive
  6. progenitiveness
  7. progenitor
  8. progenitor cell
  9. progenitor cells
  10. progenitorial
  11. progenitors

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