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venturesomeness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The property of being venturesome.

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  • noun The degree or quality of being venturesome.

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  • noun the trait of being adventurous

Etymologies

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From venturesome + -ness.

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Examples

  • So yes, there is inevitably some decline in venturesomeness.

    Rocco Landesman Answers Your Broadway Questions - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • So yes, there is inevitably some decline in venturesomeness.

    Rocco Landesman Answers Your Broadway Questions - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • In fact, the venturesomeness of consumers has nourished unimaginable advances in our standard of living and created invaluable human capital that is often ignored.

    Consumers Can Still Spot Value in a Crisis 2009

  • Before going ahead an entrepreneur has to foresee an adequate presence of Nelson-Phelps managers and, similarly, Bhidé consumers with the education and venturesomeness required to weigh, judge and operate the new product or method.

    Edmund S. Phelps - Autobiography 2007

  • The salient value of the innovator is venturesomeness, due to a desire for the rash, the daring, and the risky.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995

  • The innovators who adopt an innovation first have a very low threshold for adoption, attributable to their venturesomeness.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995

  • Maupertuis, as has been said, was courageous and venturesome, and this venturesomeness being uncorrected by the severe discipline of a large body of accurate positive knowledge, such as Clairaut and Lagrange possessed, led him into some worse than equivocal speculation.

    Voltaire 2007

  • The salient value of the innovator is venturesomeness, due to a desire for the rash, the daring, and the risky.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

  • Innovators have more favorable attitudes toward new ideas this is venturesomeness and so communication messages about innovations face less resistance.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

  • The salient value of the innovator is venturesomeness, due to a desire for the rash, the daring, and the risky.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

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