Productiveness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Productiveness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Productiveness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
productiveness n the quality of being productive or having the power to produce Synonym(s): productiveness, productivity Antonym(s): unproductiveness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Productive \Produc"tive\, a. [F. productif, L. productivus fit for prolongation.] 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. 2. Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements. And kindle with thy own productive fire. --Dryden. This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit. --Spectator. 3. Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable. -- {Produc"tively}, adv. -- {Produc"tive*ness}, n.