directiveness

Examples

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• These primary practical principles' integral directiveness is articulated in the master principle of morality and its specifications in morality's norms.

  Academic text (2008)

• This means that instead of using the information-transfer model of simple directiveness, competent teachers are moving toward participative learning, as competent managers are moving toward participative management.

  Academic text (1991)

• The portfolio also showed self-directiveness.

  Academic text (2013)

• A particularly fundamental connection in this vein is the way in which the normativity of practical reasoning and its directiveness towards human well-being and fulfillment explain the normativity and the action-guiding character of law's authority.

  Academic text (2008)

• Genetic counselors don't talk (or likely think) like this anymore, and commitments to patient/client autonomy are much stronger now than they were when first developing out of the "non-directiveness" of the mid-20th century.

  Blog text (6)

• Unlike Kantians, however, natural law theorists do not believe that moral norms can be identified and justified apart from a consideration of the integral directiveness of the principles of practical reason directing human choice and action towards what is humanly fulfilling and away from what is contrary to human well-being.

  Academic text (2008)

• Similarly, in outlining his model of sport leadership, Chelladurai (1980, p. 227) suggests that athletes will view a coach's directiveness as unnecessary and redundant when they have, or feel they have, the necessary skills for their sport.

  Academic text (1991)

• Minuchin's ideas and style of doing therapy have permeated the discipline, so that now his language is common parlance among family therapists, and his style is often emulated by those therapists whose personalities tend toward directiveness and extroversion.

  Academic text (1997)

• For example, one might claim that one simply experiences or feels that a particular act is morally right, but moral rightness is not a quality that can be apprehended by experience or feeling; rather, it is the conformity of the choice or human act with the moral criterion or standard (we would say, the integral directiveness of all the basic aspects of human well-being and fulfillment).

  Academic text (2008)

• The teacher's directiveness helped the students understand the assignment clearly.

Synonyms

G

guidance

vsdirectiveness

101 2.1

Directing the path of something so it stays on course

is a tendency to give instructions to others rather than being the action

B

bossiness

vsdirectiveness

1 4.3

Telling people what to do in a controlling way

is a tendency to give instructions without the same controlling or domineering tone

O

officiousness

vsdirectiveness

1 9.2

A way of trying to help that people do not want and find annoying

is an inclination to tell others what to do rather than intrude with help

I

imperiousness

vsdirectiveness

1 9.3

Trying to control others and acting like you are more important

is an inclination to give instructions rather than to assert arrogant authority

D

domineeringness

vsdirectiveness

9.2

Being overly controlling and not listening to others

is a tendency to give instructions but less forceful and personal

O

overbearingness

vsdirectiveness

8.3

Being too bossy and trying to control other people

is an inclination to tell others what to do rather than be arrogantly controlling

P

peremptoriness

vsdirectiveness

• Formal

9.9

A strong way of speaking that does not allow refusal

is a willingness to give instructions but without forbidding any refusal

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology