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Adaptiveness

A-dapt′ive-ness

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Noun.
The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

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adaptiveness

adaptiveness

English

Noun

adaptiveness (usually uncountable, plural adaptivenesses)

  1. The state or quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
    • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Doings of Raffles Haw:
      With female adaptiveness she fell in with his humour, and looked at the world through his eyes.

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  • adaptiveness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913