assimilativenessn.
/əˈsɪmᵻlətᵻvnᵻs/, U.S. /əˈsɪməˌleɪdᵻvnᵻs/, /əˈsɪm(ə)lədᵻvnᵻs/ 1. The quality of being assimilative; capacity for assimilation; spec. the ease with which one culture assimilates something from another culture, or the extent to which integration with another (esp. dominant) social, racial, or cultural group is or may be achieved.
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1835 G. Hancock in Phrenol. Jrnl. (1836) 9 443 I would venture to propose that some such term as the organ of Assimilativeness should be substituted for the organ of Comparison.
1862 T. Hood in T. Hood Wks. 228 Mrs. Stowe inserted it [sc. Hood's poem] in ‘Dred’ with so much American assimilativeness that it might have passed for her own.
1895 Catholic World May 273 To any Western not gifted with Sir Edwin Arnold's super-sympathetic assimilativeness there are mysteries..in Oriental asceticism.
1910 Amer. Jewish Year Bk. 27 If the ability to read and write in the second generation is any test of assimilativeness, it would seem that all the foreign elements assimilate without delay.
1990 M. R. Breitwieser Amer. Puritanism & Def. of Mourning 160 Their [sc. two Algonquian's] attire displays the eclectic assimilativeness that Axtell finds characteristic of Indian society.
2006 F. Turner Nat. Relig. 22 A coolness shared by those sects of Christianity that emulate the tolerance and easy assimilativeness of classical Rome.
2. Biology. The capacity of a nutrient to be assimilated; the efficiency with which a food is assimilated. rare.
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1884 N.E.D. Alibility, the capacity of a nutritive substance for absorption; assimilativeness.
1996 Acta Hydrobiologica 37 Suppl. No. 1. 132 Commercial [fish] feed... its carbohydrate components being subjected to hydrothermal treatment in order to improve their digestibility and assimilativeness.
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