purposiveness

/ˈpɜː(ɹ)pəsɪvnəs/

Etymology

From purposive + -ness.

purposiveness means The state or condition of being purposive. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 69 out of 100.

noun

The state or condition of being purposive.“1853, William Benjamin Carpenter, Principles of Human Physiology, Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 5th American and 4th Enlarged London Edition, Chapter 14, p. 675, These reflex actions of the Spinal Cord have much more regularity and apparent purposiveness in the lower Vertebrata, approaching in this respect to the reflex actionso fhte ganglionic column of Articulata, than they have in Man.”