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Definition of Reactiveness
1. activeness [n -ES] - See also: activeness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reactiveness
Literary usage of Reactiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Hygiene of Mind by Thomas Smith Clouston (1906)
"Brain and Mental Reactiveness.—There is an all-pervading and most subtle quality
of the brain which may be called its reactiveness, which distinguishes it, ..."
2. The Hygiene of Mind by Thomas Smith Clouston (1907)
"Brain and Mental Reactiveness.—There is an all-pervading and most subtle quality
of the brain which may be called its reactiveness, which distinguishes it, ..."
3. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1921)
"132), one line (line 757) showed a marked divergence in the strains selected for
greater and for less reactiveness respectively. ..."
4. Genetics and Eugenics: A Text-book for Students of Biology and a Reference by William Ernest Castle, Gregor Mendel (1916)
"No differences in general vigor between the selected lines could be detected.
The change was a specific one in relation to light reactiveness and had been ..."
5. Contributions from the Bermuda Biological Station for Research by Bermuda Biological Station for Research (1916)
"As with tactile and photic stimuli, reactiveness was lower in holothurians ...
In all cases the order of reactiveness of the several parts of the animal was ..."
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