adaptivityn.
/ˌadəpˈtɪvᵻti/, /ˌadapˈtɪvᵻti/, U.S. /ˌædəpˈtɪvᵻdi/, /ˌædæpˈtɪvᵻdi/ The quality of being adaptive, adaptability; = adaptiveness n.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > adaptability to circumstances > [noun]
accommodableness1663
adaptation1787
accommodativeness1834
appliancy1836
adaptivity1840
adaptativeness1841
adaptiveness1863
adjustment1881
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > adaptation or adjustment > [noun] > capability of
adaptability1661
flexibility1783
elasticity1801
adaptiveness1815
adaptableness1833
adaptivity1840
adjustability1849
1840 J. H. Green Vital Dynamics App. E. 86 The subject or agent is imperfect—that is, a mere spontaneity actuated into an instinctive adaptivity—and tends to lapse from the law which actuates and directs it.
1875 Contemp. Rev. 27 92 There is not a shadow of proof that the adaptivity of a race to changed conditions is due to the reaction of changed personal structure upon the sexual elements.
1908 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Mar. 2/3 The College and the University have to keep adaptivity before them as the quality more essential than any other.
1966 College Composition & Communication 17 230/1 The classroom teacher—who enjoys better adaptivity, a more versatile capability of ransacking a memory, a ‘personality’,..and so forth.
2010 D. Shenk Genius in all of Us 249 While evolution has given humans some variability in muscle types, perhaps its powerful product is its adaptivity.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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