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
It were easy to multiply quotations which should prove that the denial of "purposiveness" is commonly conceived to be the inevitable accompaniment of a belief in evolution.
From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Butler, Samuel
