productiveness

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In fact, studies on “social sharing” show that the productiveness of this type of venting depends on how it’s done.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2022

Whatever you think of the Shaker commitment to celibacy, it may have contributed to their remarkable productiveness; they were responsible for many cherished modern inventions — among them clothespin and the circular saw.

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2018

Said called this kind of style, which he found deeply interesting, a "deliberately unproductive productiveness, a going against".

From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2010

Five times as many people can be taken care of by putting up vast satellite mirrors to reflect sunlight onto the polar areas, warming the whole earth to equatorial productiveness.

From Time Magazine Archive

The soil, therefore, cannot be called alluvial, though in the most essential quality of productiveness, it is scarcely inferior to the best of them.

From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Norman, B. M.