Definition of Adaptiveness

1. n. The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

Definition of Adaptiveness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adaptiveness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adaptiveness

adaptive behaviour
adaptive behaviour scales
adaptive control
adaptive enzyme
adaptive enzymes
adaptive hypertrophy
adaptive immune system
adaptive intelligence
adaptive management
adaptive management area
adaptive optics
adaptive radiation
adaptive zone
adaptive zones
adaptively
adaptiveness (current term)
adaptivenesses
adaptivities
adaptivity
adaptly
adaptness
adaptogen
adaptogenic
adaptogens
adaptometer
adaptometers
adaptor
adaptor hypothesis
adaptorial
adaptors

Literary usage of Adaptiveness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mind in the Lower Animals, in Health and Disease by William Lauder Lindsay (1880)
"Our chapters on ' Education ' and ' adaptiveness,' as well as other chapters, contain abundant evidence of the incessant and almost infinite variability or ..."

2. The Unity of the Organism; Or, The Organismal Conception of Life by William Emerson Ritter (1919)
"Four Certainties About the adaptiveness of ... Psychic Activities Concerning the purposefulness or adaptiveness of activities of this general ..."

3. The System of Animate Nature: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the by John Arthur Thomson (1920)
"... LECTURE X. adaptiveness AND PURPOSIVENESS. § 1. Animate Nature Abounds in Adaptations. §2. Their Origin neither by Design nor Mechanical. § 3. ..."

4. The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil (1855)
"... of a machine for manufacturing wire-fence, and spoke of the admirable adaptiveness of this mode of fencing to farms, gardens, roads, railroads, canals, ..."

5. Learning Together: Responding to Change and Complexity to Improve Community by Herlina Hartanto (2003)
"Collaboration and adaptiveness In Palawan, the level of collaboration among the POs, community groups, and other local stakeholders before the entry of our ..."

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