motiveness

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English

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Etymology

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motive +‎ -ness

Noun

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motiveness (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Ability to move; mobility.
    • 1828, John Ballantyne, An Examination of the Human Mind, page 427:
      The lower animals can obviously associate with great readiness: and as to motiveness, they frequently discover a degree of agility to which man can make no pretensions.
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