adaptiveness

English

Etymology

From adaptive +‎ -ness.

Noun

adaptiveness (usually uncountable, plural adaptivenesses)

1. The state or quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

   Synonyms: adaptativeness, adaptivity

   Coordinate terms: adaptedness, adaptitude

   Near-synonyms: adaptability, adaptableness

   • 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.

Related terms

• adapt
• adaptable
• adaptably
• adaptation
• adaptational
• adaptative
• adaptatively
• adapter
• adaption
• adaptional
• adaptive
• adaptively
• adaptly
• adaptness
• adaptorial

Translations

state or quality of being adaptive

• Bulgarian: адапти́вност f (adaptívnost)
• Greek: προσαρμοστικότητα (el) f (prosarmostikótita)
• Polish: adaptacyjność f, przystosowalność f, przystosowawczość (pl) f, adaptatywność
• Portuguese: adaptatividade f
• Turkish: uyumluluk (tr)

References

• “adaptiveness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.