Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being adaptive; capability of making or becoming fit or suitable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
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- noun The state or quality of being
adaptive ; capacity toadapt .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nor can I regard myself as an exception, since, owing to a certain kind of adaptiveness in me, a sense of being at home wherever grass grows, I am in a way a native too.
A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs 1881
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The advantage of network organizations is their adaptiveness and capacity to innovate when faced with change and uncertainty. . .
Dear CEO: They're Just Not That Into You David Stein 2011
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Humans are humans, and modern humans, regardless of their inventiveness and adaptiveness, are not all that different from when they moved from the Eastern African plains.
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Diversity and adaptiveness generate viability and resilience - of the capitalist system as a whole.
Doubts about Planning, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Once men came from Earth to test their strength and adaptiveness on a harsh new world - now the progress of mankind had passed Mars by, and she had become a second-class planet, her Mars-born humans only dead-end mutations.
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To advocates of the counterinsurgency strategy that General Odierno has, in part, come to symbolize, the learning curve might highlight the military's adaptiveness.
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He attributes American resilience and adaptiveness to our inventive, entrepreneurial culture, a welcoming immigration policy and first-rate system of higher education.
Will Marshall: To Fix Our Country, We Need to Fix Our Politics First 2010
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To advocates of the counterinsurgency strategy that General Odierno has, in part, come to symbolize, the learning curve might highlight the military's adaptiveness.
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We\'re about to see whether he has the perceptiveness, the creativity, and the adaptiveness to come up with a new way of fighting his enemies, suited to the new realities. '
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This case study focuses on the adaptability (or adaptiveness) of the traditional Inuit economy in Nunavut in a (presumed) time of climate-induced ecological instability.
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