Dictionary

purpositivity en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɚpəsədɪvᵻdi/ (General-American)
• /ˈpəːpəsᵻtɪvᵻti/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English purpos English purpose Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English -ative English -tive English purpositive Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English purpositivity From purpositive + -ity.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The state or condition of being purpositive.
   • Therefore, in performance appraisal, modern organizations should re-examine the purpositivity requirements of performance appraisal from the perspective of management philosophy. 2022, Xianghe Yi, Sufen Lu, Jianjun Tan, “Ethical Review of Performance Appraisal”, in Taosheng Wang, Srikanta Patnaik, Andrew W.H. Ip, Madjid Tavana, editors, Advances in Decision and Science Management: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Decision Science and Management (ICDSM 2021), Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, page 274:
   • […] e.g. the extent to which they are hereditory and automatic in operation, though the purpositivity implied in the concept is usally accepted. 1964, R.M. Shah, “Progressive (Canalization) Personality Units Formation and Some Properties and Corollaries”, in Comprehensive Personality Theory, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, page 80:
   • He steadfastly asserted that languages were human institutions, the communicative purpositivity of which overrides all else. 2009, Harro Stammerjohann, “William Dwight Whitney”, in Lexicon Grammaticorum: A Bio-Bibliographical Companion to the History of Linguistics, Second, Revised and Enlarged edition, volume II, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1635:

Forms

Synonyms

purpositiveness · purposiveness