progressiveness

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Synonyms for progressiveness

noun person or group favoring change

Antonyms for progressiveness

right wing

Word Origin & History

c.1600, "characterized by advancement" (in action, character, etc.), from progress (n.) + -ive, or else from French progressif, from past participle stem of Latin progredi. Of taxation, from 1889; of jazz, from 1947. Meaning "characterized by striving for change and innovation, avant-garde, liberal" is from 1908.

In the socio-political sense "favoring reform; radically liberal," it emerged in various British contexts from the 1880s; in the U.S. it was active as a movement in the 1890s and a generation thereafter, the name being taken again from time to time, most recently by some more liberal Democrats and other social activists, by c.2000. The noun in the sense "one who favors social and political change in the name of progress" is first attested 1865 (originally in Christianity). Earlier in a like sense were progressionist (1849, adjective; 1884, noun), progressist (1848). Related: Progressively; progressiveness.

Example Sentences for progressiveness

Franck now turned to a subject which reflects his courage and progressiveness.

The success of the school has been commensurate with its progressiveness.

He is actuated by a spirit of progressiveness in all that he does.

A continuity would be given to your being, and its progressiveness ensured.

We noticed a characteristic lack of progressiveness in so many respects.

I don't appreciate your slur on the 'progressiveness' of my—of Mr. Black.

Body and mind, as manifestations of progressiveness of the organism, 86.

Progressiveness in those lines has been at the expense of the quality of the article produced.

Whether the Japanese cleverness and progressiveness will last or not, the nation has to be credited with them now as a live asset.

It has character, whatever it may lack in progressiveness, and the brilliant colouring is a part of all the cities of the South.

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left wing