[
UK
/pɹəɡɹˈɛsɪvnəs/
]
NOUN
- advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods
How To Use progressiveness In A Sentence
- 'I'm filled full of desires for crokinole and progressiveness. The Depot Master
- Rarely can progressiveness have received this much backdated backslapping. Times, Sunday Times
- It is obvious that the administration of this University, which was noted for its progressiveness in the sixties when I attended it, has moved considerably to the right in order to appeal to its corporate donors.
- I've seen it argued by conservative religionist that the reason why liberals accept evolution is because of the idea of progressiveness in the facts and theories. Discover Blogs
- I hereby propose that all academics who call for a boycott of Israel be called out for the disgusting racists they are, because somehow, for some obscure reason, despite all their so-called 'progressiveness' and vaunted 'compassion' they have managed to be completely blind to Hamas' blatant anti-semitism, racial bigotry and institutionalized hatred toward Jews. Archive 2009-01-01
- When I first moved to Montréal, I believed it to be a cosmopolitan city of many cultures, many languages, all playing and chain-smoking together in an oasis of European cool, a beacon of progressiveness, tolerance, and diversity.
- ‘The city has always been proud of its public spirit and its progressiveness,’ he said.
- No way was I going into that; my so-called progressiveness has huge limits, lol. "Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough too much."
- Progressiveness, like greenishness and truthiness, abounded. The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
- It's just unfortunate that an article praising the progressiveness and impact of New Wave Latin Cinema can't do justice to the countries of production by spelling them correctly.