prospectivenessn.
/prəˈspɛktᵻvnᵻs/, U.S. /prəˈspɛktɪvnᵻs/, /prɑˈspɛktɪvnᵻs/ The quality or character of being prospective or looking forward; relation to or consideration for the future.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [noun] > preview, foretaste > quality of
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > condition of having view
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1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. II. xviii. 58 There is a want of that prospectiveness of mind, that surview, which enables a man to foresee the whole of what he is to convey.
1824 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 1st Ser. III. 343 The symptomatic prospectiveness of the disease.
1872 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Oct. 607 The future tense expressing ‘prospectiveness’, the circumstantial participle future is used strictly and almost exclusively to denote intention.
1904 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 18 201 The demand for such creatures is presumably influenced by the expected series of future generations, so far as commercial prospectiveness may extend.
1949 Southern Econ. Jrnl. 16 167 The expansion of a specific type of economic activity within an area depends upon the relationship between costs of investment in that activity and the prospectiveness of returns from it.
1987 Representations 20 102 Clarissa's view that consent can only be given freely and thus that the act of deciding the value of an action..is itself a kind of prospectiveness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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