adaptiveness|əˈdæptɪvnɪs|[f.asprec.+ -ness.]The quality of being adaptive; the capacity or tendency to adapt one thing to another, or oneself to circumstances.1863J. C. JeaffresonEverard'sDau.xiii. 221The man had..a subtle adaptiveness as well as sincere desire to please.1878C. StanfordSymb. Christ vi. 172The Saviour's words have minutely particular adaptiveness to every moment of the soul's history.1879CarpenterMent.Physiol.i. ii. §70. 74The adaptiveness of the movements is no proof of the existence of consciousness.