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progenitiveness en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English progenitive Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English progenitiveness From progenitive + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being progenitive (able to produce offspring).
    • The Crèche is the place where the poor mothers leave their children in the morning, in the care of some kind women who have a large philo-progenitiveness and no other means of gratifying it than by pet cats or dogs, or other people's children, and go off to their work until night. 1849, European Life and Manners, page 164:
    • The aspect of progenitiveness leaves space for the interpretation of the mythical bear as either male or female. 2008, Harald Haarmann, Introducing the Mythological Crescent:
    • There is another difficulty in the way of accepting metaphysical peculiarity or progenitiveness as isolating species. 1867, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, page 293: