adaptive
adjective
serving or able to adapt; showing or contributing to adaptation.
adaptiveness
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a word derived from
adaptive.
Example Sentences
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Daoist texts teach readers to adopt a stance that is typically called wuwei, meaning nonaction, softness, or adaptiveness to the circumstances at hand.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
And a high orientation to adaptiveness and agility.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
For decades, menswear’s slow adaptiveness on the red carpet has felt positively glacial next to women’s.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2020
If so, Luo says, it would imply that the evolutionary groundwork for this surprising diversity and adaptiveness among early mammals was laid down much earlier than researchers suspected.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 12, 2015
He at times adopted various disguises, but generally depended upon his own natural shrewdness, and his natural adaptiveness for the role of an itinerant peddler to carry him through successfully.
From The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, by Allan Pinkerton
