Productiveness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Productive \Pro*duc"tive\, a. [F. productif, L. productivus fit
     for prolongation.]
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     1. Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or
        furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive
        enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the


        number or amount of products.
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     2. Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing;
        originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit
        productive of heroic achievements.
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              And kindle with thy own productive fire. --Dryden.
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              This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue,
              and making it productive of merit.    --Spectator.
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     3. Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile;
        profitable.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Pro*duc"tive*ly}, adv. --
        {Pro*duc"tive*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  productiveness
       n : the quality of being productive or having the power to
           produce [syn: {productivity}] [ant: {unproductiveness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  195 Moby Thesaurus words for "productiveness":
     abundance, access, accession, accomplishment, accretion, accrual,
     accruement, accumulation, achievement, addition, advance,
     affluence, aggrandizement, amperage, ample sufficiency, ampleness,
     amplification, amplitude, appreciation, armipotence, ascent,
     augmentation, authority, avalanche, ballooning, beef, black power,
     bloating, bonanza, boom, boost, bountifulness, bountiousness,
     bringing to fruition, broadening, brute force, buildup,
     bumper crop, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion,
     copiousness, crescendo, development, dint, doing, drive, duress,
     edema, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, effectuation,
     elevation, energy, enlargement, execution, expansion, extension,
     extravagance, exuberance, fertility, flood, flow, flower power,
     foison, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force,
     full measure, fullness, gain, generosity, generousness,
     great abundance, great plenty, greatening, growth, gush, hike,
     increase, increment, inflation, influence, jump, landslide,
     lavishness, leap, liberality, liberalness, lots, luxuriance,
     main force, main strength, mana, maximum, might, might and main,
     mightiness, more than enough, mounting, moxie, much,
     multiplication, muscle power, myriad, myriads, numerousness,
     operation, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overflow,
     overproduction, performance, pizzazz, plenitude, plenteousness,
     plentifulness, plenty, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power,
     power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness,
     prepotency, prevalence, prodigality, production, productivity,
     profuseness, profusion, proliferation, puissance, pull, punch,
     push, quantities, raise, realization, repleteness, repletion,
     rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, rise, scads,
     shower, sinew, snowballing, spate, spread, steam, stream, strength,
     strong arm, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance,
     superiority, superpower, surge, swelling, teemingness, tumescence,
     up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, validity, vehemence,
     vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, wattage, waxing,
     wealth, weight, widening