adaptiveness

noun

adaptiveness

noun

Etymology From adaptive + -ness.

1

Usually The state or quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

  • Near-synonyms: adaptability, adaptableness
  • With female adaptiveness she fell in with his humour, and looked at the world through his eyes.1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Doings of Raffles Haw:
Related terms
adapt, adaptable, adaptably, adaptation, adaptational, adaptative, adaptatively, adapter, adaption, adaptional, adaptive, adaptively, adaptly, adaptness, adaptorial

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