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purposivenesses

purposivenesses is the plural of purposiveness.

Meaning of purposiveness

Noun

purposiveness (usually uncountable, plural purposivenesses)

  1. (usually) The state or condition of being purposive.
    • These reflex actions of the Spinal Cord have much more regularity and apparent purposiveness in the lower Vertebrata, approaching in this respect to the reflex actionso fhte ganglionic column of Articulata, than they have in Man.1853, William Benjamin Carpenter, Principles of Human Physiology, Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 5th American and 4th Enlarged London Edition, Chapter 14, p. 675
    Synonyms:
    purposivity

Questions about purposivenesses

What is purposivenesses the plural of?
Purposivenesses is the plural of purposiveness.

Words near purposivenesses in the dictionary

  1. purpositivity
  2. purposive
  3. purposive approach
  4. purposively
  5. purposiveness
  6. purposivenesses
  7. purposivism
  8. purposivist
  9. purposivistic
  10. purposivists
  11. purposivity

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