purposiveness
- a word derived from purposive.
Example Sentences
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And Lindsey wonders why anyone would welcome a world devoid of striving, ambition and “future-oriented purposiveness of any sort.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2022
“The people demand clarity of vision and purposiveness of action.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2022
With the penetrating clarity common to the slightly deranged, and with an air of bustling purposiveness, Perot has about him a kind of gravitas that appears to transmute political banalities into profound insights.
From Time Magazine Archive
An Aristotelian could never argue like this: Aristotle himself did not believe the universe had a creator, and his medieval successors thought that purposiveness was part of the very fabric of nature.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
This blind force, which however has a certain coherence and purposiveness, is in the animal organism endowed with a new character, in consequence of the emergence of a new organ.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
