Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being prospective; the act or habit of regarding the future; foresight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality of being prospective.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Quality of being
prospective .
Etymologies
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prospective + -ness
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Examples
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There is a want of that prospectiveness of mind, that surview, which enables a man to foresee the whole of what he is to convey, appertaining to any one point; and by this means so to subordinate and arrange the different parts according to their relative importance, as to convey it at once, and as an organized whole.
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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