Lexic.us

Definition of Readiness

1. Noun. The state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action). "Their preparation was more than adequate"

2. Noun. Prompt willingness. "He tried to explain his forwardness in battle"

3. Noun. (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way. "His instructions deliberately gave them the wrong set"

4. Noun. A natural effortlessness. "A happy readiness of conversation"

Definition of Readiness

1. n. The state or quality of being ready; preparation; promptness; aptitude; willingness.

Definition of Readiness

1. Noun. the state or degree of being ready ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Readiness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Readiness

readerless readerly readers readership readerships readest readeth readibility readie readied

readier readies readiest readily readin' readiness (current term) readinesses reading reading-frameshift mutation reading clinic

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Literary usage of Readiness

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

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"(2) Neither party to a contract can demand performance by the other without alleging and proving his own readiness to perform his part of the contract at ..."

2. Educational Psychology: Briefer Course by Edward Lee Thorndike (1914)
"9 THE PRINCIPLE OF readiness Successful operation can in fact be satisfactorily denned, and what will originally satisfy and annoy can be safely predicted, ..."

3. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"... readiness and More Taste for General Ideas Than Their Forefathers, the English THE Deity does not regard the human race collectively. ..."

4. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve, John Canfield Spencer (1848)
"WHY THE AMERICANS DISPLAY MORE readiness AND MORE TASTE FOE GENERAL IDEAS THAN THEIR FOREFATHERS THE ENGLISH. THE Deity does not regard the human race ..."

5. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"... Display More readiness and More Taste for General Ideas Than Their Forefathers, the English THE Deity does not regard the human race collectively. ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"It oxidizes in the air with great readiness, a freshly cut surface becoming almost instantly covered with a film of oxide. It also decomposes water ..."

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