PROGRESSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does progressiveness mean? 

• PROGRESSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun PROGRESSIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods

  Familiarity information: PROGRESSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROGRESSIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

progressiveness; progressivity

Hypernyms ("progressiveness" is a kind of...):

changeability; changeableness (the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change)

Derivation:

progressive (favoring or promoting reform (often by government action))

progressive (favoring or promoting progress)