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maladaptiveness

noun

Etymology

From maladaptive + -ness.

  1. derived from adaptāre
  2. inherited from *adapten✻
  3. suffixed as adaptive — “adapt + ive”
  4. prefixed as maladaptive — “mal + adaptive”
  5. suffixed as maladaptiveness — “maladaptive + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being maladaptive.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA