progressive
adjective
favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters.
progressiveness
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a word derived from
progressive.
Example Sentences
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Here, progressiveness isn’t derived from depicting queer people as singularly, unceasingly good or bad.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026
It's equally ironic how Nehru, one of the foremost exponents of progressiveness and modern thought, came to be associated with this story.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2023
“It’s a big racetrack. It’s incredibly wide. The progressiveness of each lane, the banking, is the right kind of degree change. Tires fall off. You ask drivers, ‘What’s your dream racetrack?’
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2023
Rikers is in a city that preens about its progressiveness.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2023
Aristotle’s Greek was known to few, Bacon’s eloquent English opened out the subject to the many whom he impregnated with his own confidence in the grand progressiveness of human thought.
From Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
