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productiveness |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Productive \Pro*duc"tive\, a. [F. productif L. productivus fit for prolongation.] 1. Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products. 2. Bringing into being causing to exist; producing; originative; as an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements. And kindle with thy own productive fire. --Dryden. This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit. --Spectator. 3. Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable. -- {Pro*duc"tive*ly}, adv -- {Pro*duc"tive*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: productiveness n : the quality of being productive or having the power to produce [syn: {productivity}] [ant: {unproductiveness}]
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