progressivity

1. 1.

   advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods

   Synonymsprogressiveness

   Broaderchangeableness

Other forms of progressivity

plural

progressivities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about progressivity

What does progressivity mean?

progressivity means "advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods".

How many syllables are in progressivity?

progressivity has 5 syllables: pro-gres-siv-i-ty. The stress falls on "siv". In IPA it is /ˌpɹɑɡɹɛˈsɪvəti/.

What is another word for progressivity?

Close synonyms include progressiveness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is progressivity a common word?

progressivity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.