Found 2 items, similar to Productiveness.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: productiveness productiveness n : the quality of being productive or having the power to produce [syn: productivity] [ant: unproductiveness]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Productiveness Productive \Pro*duc"tive\, a. [F. productif, L. productivus fit for prolongation.] [1913 Webster] 1. Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products. [1913 Webster] 2. Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements. [1913 Webster] And kindle with thy own productive fire. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit. --Spectator. [1913 Webster] 3. Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable. [1913 Webster] -- Pro*duc"tive*ly, adv. -- Pro*duc"tive*ness, n. [1913 Webster]