adaptiveness

From adaptive + -ness.

adaptiveness (usually uncountable, plural adaptivenesses)

1. The state or quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

   Synonyms: adaptativeness, adaptivity

   Coordinate terms: adaptedness, adaptitude

   Near-synonyms: adaptability, adaptableness

   • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Doings of Raffles Haw:

     With female adaptiveness she fell in with his humour, and looked at the world through his eyes.

• “adaptiveness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.