adaptiveness

English

Etymology

adaptive +‎ -ness

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.

Synonyms

• adaptivity

Related terms

• adapt
• adaptability
• adaptable
• adaptableness
• adaptably
• adaptation
• adaptational
• adaptative
• adaptatively
• adaptativeness

• adaptedness
• adapter
• adaption
• adaptional
• adaptitude
• adaptive
• adaptively
• adaptly
• adaptness
• adaptorial

Translations

state or quality of being adaptive

• Greek: προσαρμοστικότητα (el) f (prosarmostikótita)
• Portuguese: adaptatividade f
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• Turkish: uyumluluk (tr)

References

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