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adaptiveness|əˈdæptɪvnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being adaptive; the capacity or tendency to adapt one thing to another, or oneself to circumstances.
1863J. C. Jeaffreson Everard's Dau. xiii. 221 The man had..a subtle adaptiveness as well as sincere desire to please. 1878C. Stanford Symb. Christ vi. 172 The Saviour's words have minutely particular adaptiveness to every moment of the soul's history. 1879Carpenter Ment. Physiol. i. ii. §70. 74 The adaptiveness of the movements is no proof of the existence of consciousness. |