Crossword clues for progressiveness
progressiveness
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) Of or pertaining to the Progressive party.
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Favoring improvement, change, progress, or reform, especially in a political context; -- used of people. Contrasted with conservative.
Note: The term progressive is sometimes used to describe the views of a politician, where liberal might have been used at one time, in communities where the term liberal has come to connote extreme views.
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Disposed toward adopting new methods in government or education, holding tolerant and liberal ideas, and generally favoring improvement in civic life; -- of towns and communities.
Progressive euchre or Progressive whist, a way of playing at card parties, by which after every game, the losers at the first table go to the last table, and the winners at all the tables, except the first, move up to the next table.
Progressive muscular atrophy (Med.), a nervous disorder characterized by continuous atrophy of the muscles. [1913 Webster] -- Pro*gress"ive*ly, adv. -- Pro*gress"ive*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being progressive
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.