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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Productive \Pro*duc"tive\, adjective [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. -- {Pro*duc"tive*ly}, adverb -- {Pro*duc"tive*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
productiveness
noun: the quality of being productive or having the power to produce [syn: {productivity}] [ant: {unproductiveness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
195 Moby Thesaurus words for "productiveness": abundance, access, accession, accomplishment, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, achievement, addition, advance, affluence, aggrandizement, amperage, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplification, amplitude, appreciation, armipotence, ascent, augmentation, authority, avalanche, ballooning, beef, black power, bloating, bonanza, boom, boost, bountifulness, bountiousness, bringing to fruition, broadening, brute force, buildup, bumper crop, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, copiousness, crescendo, development, dint, doing, drive, duress, edema, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, effectuation, elevation, energy, enlargement, execution, expansion, extension, extravagance, exuberance, fertility, flood, flow, flower power, foison, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force, full measure, fullness, gain, generosity, generousness, great abundance, great plenty, greatening, growth, gush, hike, increase, increment, inflation, influence, jump, landslide, lavishness, leap, liberality, liberalness, lots, luxuriance, main force, main strength, mana, maximum, might, might and main, mightiness, more than enough, mounting, moxie, much, multiplication, muscle power, myriad, myriads, numerousness, operation, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overflow, overproduction, performance, pizzazz, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, prevalence, prodigality, production, productivity, profuseness, profusion, proliferation, puissance, pull, punch, push, quantities, raise, realization, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, rise, scads, shower, sinew, snowballing, spate, spread, steam, stream, strength, strong arm, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance, superiority, superpower, surge, swelling, teemingness, tumescence, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, validity, vehemence, vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, wattage, waxing, wealth, weight, widening
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