Operativenesses

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The quality or state of being effective or functional in achieving a specific purpose or outcome
2. the degree to which something operates successfully in a given context
3. a measure of how well an action or system produces intended results while maintaining efficiency

Etymology: "Operativenesses" is the plural of "operativeness," a noun formed from the adjective "operative" with the suffix "-ness." The suffix has a long pedigree: it descends from Old English "-nes," which attached to adjectives to turn a quality into a noun, so that "good" gave "goodness" and "dark" gave "darkness." "Operative" itself came into English from Medieval Latin "operativus," from "operari," meaning to work or act, and it came to mean something that is in active effect or working. Put the two parts together and "operativeness" names the quality of being operative, or working in practice. Its plural is rarely used, since the abstract noun is normally uncountable; the plural appears when writers want to speak of several distinct instances or contexts in which something works effectively.

Synonyms: efficiencies, effectivenesses, productivities, performances

Antonyms: ineffectivenesses, inefficiencies, dysfunctions