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Definition of Sense of purpose
1. Noun. The quality of having a definite purpose.
Generic synonyms: Meaningfulness
Derivative terms: Purposeful, Purposeful
Antonyms: Purposelessness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sense Of Purpose
Literary usage of Sense of purpose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society by Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"I mean that the sense of purpose, desire, expectation, taken alone, is not the
sense of action ; action is not its objective aspect, is not itself over ..."
2. Visions: Sunday Morning Sermons at St. Bartholomew's, New York by David Hummell Greer (1898)
"Whatever gives or imparts that consciousness to life, that sense of purpose to
it, makes the life more vital. Is there anything that is taking away that ..."
3. Character and Temperament by Joseph Jastrow (1915)
"To thoughtful men of however modest parts, some sense of purpose, some unification
of divergent activities, some congeniality of belief, must be present as ..."
4. Character and Temperament by Joseph Jastrow (1921)
"To thoughtful men of however modest parts, some sense of purpose, some unification
of divergent activities, some congeniality of belief, must be present as ..."
5. The Prophecies of Isaiah by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1881)
"... a good example of the interlacing of the parts of this prophecy, ' pleasure'
in the sense of 'purpose' occurring no less than eight times in II. Isaiah. ..."
6. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"(3] With suffix -и, eg ев, eo-dem (iil-eo has only the later sense of purpose.
not the earlier of motion towards, ' that for that purpose,' ' and that ..."
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