sense of purpose

1. 1.

   the quality of having a definite purpose

   Synonymspurposefulness

   Broadermeaningfulness

Questions about sense of purpose

What does sense of purpose mean?

sense of purpose means "the quality of having a definite purpose".

What is another word for sense of purpose?

Close synonyms include purposefulness. 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 sense of purpose a common word?

sense of purpose 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.