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Definition: Progressiveness |
ProgressivenessNoun1. Advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "progressiveness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references) |
Synonym: ProgressivenessSynonym: progressivity (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: limiting the progressiveness of the tax (finance, law), progressiveness of tax. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sequence | Noun: progress, progression, progressiveness; advancing; Verb: advance, advancement; ongoing; flood, tide, headway; march; rise; improvement. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Progressiveness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Progressiveness" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "progressiveness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Fortschrittlichkeit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προοδευτικότησ, προοδευτικότητα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | progressivit . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ogressivenesspray прогрессивность. (various references) progresividad, progresismo (progressivism). (various references) tính tiến bộ tính luỹ tiến, sự tiến tới sự tiến bộ, sự tiến lên (advance, advancement, forwardness, upturn), sự tăng không ngừng, sự tăng dần lên, sự phát triển không ngừng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "progressiveness": progressivenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Progressiveness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: regressiveness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-i-n-o-p-r-r-s-s-s-s-v" | |
-3 letters: progressives, repossessing. | |
-4 letters: erosiveness, governesses, persevering, perversions, progressive, prosinesses, regressions, repressions, sorrinesses. | |
-5 letters: egressions, engrossers, gorinesses, overseeing, peregrines, perversion, possessing, possessive, preserving, prioresses, progresses, regression, regressive, repressing, repression, repressive, reserpines, responsive, reversions, ripenesses, ropinesses, rosinesses, sorenesses, sovereigns. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-g-i-n-o-p-r-r-s-s-s-s-v" | |
+2 letters: progressivenesses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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