striving
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striving
- present participle and gerund of strive
Noun edit
striving (countable and uncountable, plural strivings)
- Effort; the act of one who strives.
- 1918, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine:
- 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 […]
- 2007, Steve Talbott, Devices of the Soul, page 192:
- Do we really want all those strivings and contrivings—all those thoughts and assumptions someone has cleverly etched into the hardware and software we are using—to remain invisible?