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What is the noun for purposiveness?

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purpose
  1. An object to be reached; a target; an aim; a goal.
  2. A result that is desired; an intention.
  3. The act of intending to do something; resolution; determination.
  4. The subject of discourse; the point at issue.
  5. The reason for which something is done, or the reason it is done in a particular way.
  6. (obsolete) Instance; example.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “The purpose of this study is to document the structure of a warm front in northeast Europe.”
      “They moved about with great purpose as though a simple turn to the left or to the right might finally take them where they wanted to go.”
      “Our packaging has been designed for the purpose of keeping the contents sterile and reducing cost.”
purposiveness
  1. The state or condition of being purposive.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Remember that Kant emphasized formal features and the idea of purposiveness without a purpose.”
      “The Realism of the purposiveness of nature is also either physical or hyperphysical.”
      “We affirm our faith in the purposiveness of history where people can transcend bondage and death and are prepared to offer one's own life for it.”
purposelessness
  1. The state of being purposeless.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “After much prayer and consideration, we simply decided that they can take their purposelessness elsewhere.”
      “But the very massiveness of these tumors, sometimes rivaling the size of their host, makes their seeming purposelessness all the more obvious.”
      “He brought out, sharply cut and certain, the immense effect of purposelessness in London that I was already indistinctly feeling.”
purposefulness
  1. The state of being purposeful.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Khaled also displays a purposefulness that contradicts ideas of children as helpless munchkins or mental incompetents.”
      “The same is true of the West's response, which has been all about creating an image of purposefulness.”
      “There has always been a furious doggedness to him, a strong-willed purposefulness that drove him, sometimes headlong, through life.”
purposer
  1. Someone who purposes something.
purposing
  1. The act of forming a purpose.
purposivenesses
purposings
  1. plural of purposing
purposers
  1. plural of purposer
purposes
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