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strivings

strivings is the plural of striving.

Meaning of striving

Noun

striving (countable and uncountable, plural strivings)

  1. Effort; the act of one who strives.
    • Repudiating the excessive sexualism of Freud and insisting upon the importance of the food-seeking impulse, especially in childhood, he regards all the primary impulses as differentiations of one fundamental energy, the life force which sustains all our strivings, both conscious and unconscious […]1918, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine

Questions about strivings

What is strivings the plural of?
Strivings is the plural of striving.

Words near strivings in the dictionary

  1. strives
  2. strivest
  3. striveth
  4. striving
  5. strivingly
  6. strivings
  7. strix
  8. strixes
  9. Strizivojna
  10. striæ
  11. STRNY

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