motiveness

English edit

Etymology edit

motive +‎ -ness

Noun edit

motiveness (uncountable)

(archaic) Ability to move; mobility.
- 1828, John Ballantyne, An Examination of the Human Mind, page 427:
  The lower animals can obviously associate with great readiness: and as to motiveness, they frequently discover a degree of agility to which man can make no pretensions.

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