purposefulness

pur·pose·ful  (pûrps-fl)

adj.

1. Having a purpose; intentional: a purposeful musician.

2. Having or manifesting purpose; determined: entered the room with a purposeful look.

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purpose·ful·ly adv.

purpose·ful·ness n.

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Purposefulness 

1. Came around … deliberately like the gun turret of a great ship —Donald McCaig
2. Dedicated as a Japanese artist who has found the flower he must paint all his life —William Mcllvanney
3. Deliberate as a bee taking honey —Molly Kean
4. Deliberate as a dog sniffing out a buried bone —Anon
5. Effort as conscious and deliberate as holding his breath under water —William Peden

   From a short story entitled Night in Funland, this refers to a character’s effort to control his emotions.

6. Had a plan … simple as Cain’s —Alma and Paul Ellerbe
7. His time was organized, planned like the timetable of a battle maneuver —Arthur A. Cohen
8. Intent as a cannibal at breakfast —T. Coraghessan Boyle
9. Intent as a collector —W. H. Auden
10. Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend —Walter Savage Landor
11. Method is like packing things in a box; a good packer will get in half as much again as a bad one —Richard Cecil
12. Moved like a steamroller, in a straight line, crushing everything that was in her way —Margaret Millar
13. My will is like a long pencil, it must be sharpened —Delmore Schwartz
14. (I have always envied the man who found one single role and) played it [a role or life plan], clung and grew to it like a barnacle on a ship —George Garrett

    See Also: CLINGING

15. Rehearsed her sensuality like a summa-cum student —Francine du Plessix Gray

    See Also: SEX

16. (Somewhere in the earth is a drain of) resolution filling as a fresh teapot —Daniela Gioseffi
17. (He had) a resolution in him like an iron bar —Wallace Stegner
18. Schemed like Arabs —Thomas McGuane
19. (Ruthless and) singleminded as birds of prey —George Garrett
20. Used her charm like a tennis racket —Delmore Schwartz
21. Will without power is like children playing at soldiers —George Canning

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

purposefulness - the quality of having a definite purpose sense of purpose meaningfulness - the quality of having great value or significance aimlessness, purposelessness - the quality of lacking any definite purpose

Translations

purposefulness [ˈpɜːpəsfʊlnɪs] N → resolución f

purposefulness

n → Entschlossenheit f