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
As an engine of public liberty, the newspaper press is more effectual than the Magna Charta, because its powers are wielded with more ease, and exercised with more promptitude and adaptiveness to each particular case.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
