| 单词 | purposiveness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈpurposiveness ˈpurposiveness n. the quality or fact of being purposive. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > fact of having a purpose purposiveness1876 1876 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation I. i. 19 [One] must necessarily come to the conclusion that this ‘purposiveness’ no more exists than the much-talked-of ‘beneficence’ of the Creator. 1932 A. H. Gardiner Theory of Speech & Lang. iv. 181 The characteristic feature of the sentence, as opposed to mere unintelligible words, is its purposiveness. 2001 C. Crockett Theol. of Sublime 110 Kantian beauty, which consists in a free play of imagination and understanding in a purposiveness without purpose or a finality without end. < as lemmas |
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