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Advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods
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progressiveness
Word definitions for progressiveness in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being progressive
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Progressive \Pro*gress"ive\, a. [Cf. F. progressif.] Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde . Improving; as, art is in a progressive state. (U. S. History) ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods [syn: progressivity ]
Usage examples of progressiveness.
The moment Socialism turns into a religion it loses all its progressiveness, it ossifies and turns into a superstition of fanatics, who never forget and never learn anything.
He enjoyed a reputation for progressiveness and played ping-pong in the sacristy with the altar boys and those preparing for their first communion.
Her willingness to grapple with social taboos just as they are about to burst out of the national closet has given her a credibility, even a certain aura of progressiveness, when in fact her values are generally straight-down-the-middle American.