PROGRESSIVENESS Synonyms

• act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining

• a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)

• (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

• a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation

• the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful

• a district that has been developed to serve some purpose

• a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)

• processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible

• (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated

• offensive boldness and assertiveness

• an advanced stage

• prompt willingness

• a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation

• the creation of something in the mind

• the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

• a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution

• an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market

• the quality of being current or of the present

• a series with a definite pattern of advance

• a movement forward

• the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

• the political orientation of those who favor revolutionary change in government and society

• a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses

• a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices

• self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice

• make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices

• bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one

• produce by cracking

• break up the molecules of

• improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition

• change for the better

• advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods