adaptiveness
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
adaptiveness (usually uncountable, plural adaptivenesses)
- The state or quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
- Synonyms: adaptativeness, adaptivity
- Coordinate terms: adaptedness, adaptitude
- Near-synonyms: adaptability, adaptableness
- 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Doings of Raffles Haw:
- With female adaptiveness she fell in with his humour, and looked at the world through his eyes.
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Translations edit
state or quality of being adaptive
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References edit
- “adaptiveness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.