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productiveness|prəʊˈdʌktɪvnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being productive; capacity of producing; prolificacy; fertility, fruitfulness; abundance or richness in output.
1727Bailey vol. II, Productiveness, aptness to produce. 1795W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XVIII. 543 Circirello would be preferred to every other on account of its productiveness. 1819W. Lawrence Nat. Hist. Man ii. i. 265 Indeed, we know no difference in productiveness between such unions and those of the same race. 1825McCulloch Pol. Econ. iii. iv. 254 A gold mine..of equal productiveness with the silver mines. 1847Grote Greece ii. xviii. III. 365 The extreme productiveness of the southern region of Spain. a1850Rossetti Dante & Circ. ii. (1874) 263 Francesco da Barberino shows by far the most sustained productiveness among the poets who preceded Dante. 1878Jevons Prim. Pol. Econ. vii. 54 To increase the productiveness of labour is really the important thing for everybody. |