purposefulness
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈpɜr.pəs.fəl.nəs/
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intencionalidad
- The artist painted each stroke with a purposefulness that conveyed deep emotion and intent.
And when I'm in touch with that, I feel that sense of wholeness and purposefulness when I'm out of it's when I start unraveling, so to speak.
- And when I'm in touch with that, I feel that sense of wholeness and purposefulness when I'm out of it's when I start unraveling, so to speak.
- It's just about reality value, happiness and and purposefulness and, and in this instant, moving the fuck on.
Examples
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She approached her studies with a sense of purposefulness, determined to achieve her goals.
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Those were his lessons: open doors, open hearts, work as vacation, and life as a journey toward meaning, purposefulness, and love.
Academic text (1999) -
That core feeling of purposefulness, that feeling of passion, it all starts with interest.
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The third and final phase is when people come out of the transition process with new energy, resolve, purposefulness, and even a new identity.
Academic text (2007) -
He spoke of his work with love, purposefulness, and a deep sense of meaning.
Academic text (1999) -
Going out and coming in speaks of purposefulness, not of idly wandering about.
Blog text (25) -
When the teacher finishes one activity and moves on to the next activity, there should be intention and purposefulness in the bridging transition.
Academic text (2010) -
Rta was the word by which the Vedic seers pointed to the underlying order and purposefulness of natural phenomena.
Academic text (1993) -
Everywhere was the feeling of purposefulness and energy Pandora had sensed from the Anglo in Hubbell's.
Fiction book (2001) -
I am suggesting that an enhanced feeling of power grows out of the healthy interaction with empathically attuned others, contributing to the capacity to act in the environment with a sense of self-efficacy and purposefulness.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
142
3.0
Being firm and not giving up when trying to reach a goal
22
3.5
A feeling of having a clear aim in life or work that gives you motivation
3
8.0
The ability to act on purpose and direct the mind toward a goal
1
6.7
A careful, thoughtful, and slow way of acting or making decisions
A quality of having a clear plan or reason for action
Strong determination to reach a goal and not give up
The quality of having clear meaning or a useful purpose
Antonyms
How Purposeful
Surface Forms
Morphology
purposefulness = purposeful (transparent) = purpose + ful + ness
Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ness' to 'purposeful', producing a clear nominalization of the adjective.
Etymology
Purposefulness comes from purpose, which meant 'to put forward' or 'to set a goal' and is like the word propose, where pro- means 'forward' and pose means 'put'. So, purposefulness is having a clear aim and firm determination.