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Definition of Enterprisingness
1. Noun. Readiness to embark on bold new ventures.
Generic synonyms: Drive
Derivative terms: Enterpriser, Enterprising, Go Ahead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enterprisingness
Literary usage of Enterprisingness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life of Richard Wagner by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, William Ashton Ellis (1904)
"It lacked little more than the Berlin court-theatre's enterprisingness, and
BEETHOVEN himself might have preceded them ; after the production of ..."
2. American Adventures: A Second Trip "abroad at Home" by Julian Street (1917)
"... oftentimes, an informed and cultivated kind of enterprisingness, which causes
Atlanta not only to "do things," but to do things showing vision, and, ..."
3. Johan Bojer, the Man and His Works by Carl Gad (1920)
"And Norby stands, in his great self-assurance, in his ambitious enterprisingness,
in his goodness towards those subordinate to him, his weakness towards his ..."