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purposivity en · NOUN

Etymology

From purposive + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or condition of being purposive.
    • The tumultuous debate within me gradually was resolving itself into an icy purposivity midway between determination and resignation. 1948, Percy Winner, chapter 20, in The Mote and the Beam, New York: Harcourt, Brace, page 332:
    • The species-preserving purposivity of higher organisms is no greater than that of the lowest forms of life, and Jakob von Uexküll was entirely justified in stating that all living organisms are equally well adapted to their environments. 1996, Konrad Lorenz, chapter 5, in Robert D. Martin, transl., The Natural Science of the Human Species, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, page 93:

Synonyms

purposiveness