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productiveness

productiveness

1 3.4
The amount of useful work a person or thing does
  • noun
  • /prəˈdʌktɪvnəs/
translation icon : productividad
  • To enhance the productiveness of the workshop, they provided clear guidelines and ample resources.

Fecundity means the productiveness, you could say, or the fertility.

Examples

  • The team's productiveness increased significantly after they implemented new strategies for collaboration.

  • To be constantly productive—and, via all our many social media apps, to prove our productiveness.

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  • Fecundity means the productiveness, you could say, or the fertility.

  • An Inter-area Moment: The Productiveness of Translation

    Academic text (2006)
  • You know a guy, about a decade older, who Mark Zuckerberg only wishes he could be in terms of talent and productiveness.

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  • Women calling out other women who are being ridiculous and sometimes just flat-out malicious will work wonders for the productiveness of a conversation.

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  • But the bay's chroniclers now refer to its "historical productiveness," acknowledging that the Chesapeake's fruits are no longer so abundant.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Successful businesses generally operate on Rand's principles—productiveness, competition, profit—while putting on a public face of altruistic service.

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  • Her productiveness during the project earned her praise from the manager for achieving excellent results.

Synonyms

productivity
vsproductiveness
  • Specialized
211 4.0

How much work, goods, or services are produced for the time and effort used

emphasizes quality and achieving results rather than output rate
effectualness
vsproductiveness
8.2

The ability to get the result you want

is broader, stressing making or achieving results generally
effectuality
vsproductiveness
9.1

Ability to produce the wanted result

focuses more on creating or achieving results than on power
successfulness
vsproductiveness
3.8

The state of having done well and reached goals

concerns being effective at producing or achieving results

Antonyms

Not doing much useful work or making progress

How Productive

effectiveness
140 3.5
productivity
  • Specialized
211 4.0
productiveness
1 3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

productiveness = productive (transparent) = produce + ive + ness

Standard nominalization from the adjective 'productive' using '-ness'; the meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Productiveness comes from the words produce and product, which come from an old Latin idea of 'bring forth' or 'make'. So, productiveness is about producing results and being able to 'bring forth' useful things.