单词 | unprogressiveness |
释义 | unprogressivenessn. The fact or quality of being unprogressive; lack of progressiveness. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > [noun] > resistance to change reservancy1630 Toryism1786 unprogressiveness1829 conservatism1832 fossilism1861 stand-pattism1903 passéism1943 Luddism1967 Ludditism1971 1829 New Baptist Misc. Dec. 492/2 Is your family..an exception to the general fact of unprogressiveness in religion? 1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech iv. 159 Tribes..in every stage of nomad unprogressiveness or squalid savagery. 1930 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 40 374 Public officials lack the incentive of self-interest. Hence, routine, red tape, and unprogressiveness. 2011 C. Classen in S. Paletschek Pop. Historiographies 19th & 20th Cent. (2013) vi. 99 They saw drama departments as residues of bourgeois unprogressiveness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1829 |
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