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Self-appraisals of traits that are less individualistic - such as co-operativeness, understanding others and spirituality - saw little change, or a decrease, over the same period.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2013

With a gradual increase of co-operativeness, they did the tasks they were assigned, bringing up materials, laying out the first members of the great, skeletal structure that would rise in the pasture.

From The Year When Stardust Fell by Jones, Raymond F.

The distinctive features in woman's work in this war, were magnitude, system, thorough co-operativeness with the other sex, distinctness of purpose, business-like thoroughness in details, sturdy persistency to the close.

From Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience by Bellows, Henry W.

The parts of a machine work with a maximum of co-operativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra