noun
Meaning 1
The state or condition of being purposive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Examples
- 1853, William Benjamin Carpenter, Principles of Human Physiology, Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 5th American and 4th Enlarged London Edition, Chapter 14, p. 675, These reflex actions of the Spinal Cord have much more regularity and apparent purposiveness in the lower Vertebrata, approaching in this respect to the reflex actionso fhte ganglionic column of Articulata, than they have in Man.
- 1963, Walter Cerf (translator), Analytic of the Beautiful from The Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Third Moment, § 10, p. 24, If the concept of an object is regarded as the cause of the object (as the real source of its possibility), then that object is a purpose; and purposiveness [...] is the causality of a concept with respect to its object.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: purposivity
Antonyms: none provided