Meanings
adjectiveproductivist (comparative more productivist, superlative most productivist)
comparative more productivist · superlative most productivist
- Of or pertaining to productivism.
He spoke later of May 1968 as a utopia that “understood the faults of our productivist society” and that managed to unsettle “France’s most powerful regime in a century.”
2009 July 22, Agence France-Presse, “Maurice Grimaud, Police Chief in Paris During the Riots of 1968, Dies at 95”, in New York Times
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
- Proto-Indo-European*pér
- Proto-Indo-European*pró
- Proto-Indo-European*pro-
- Proto-Italic*pro-
- Latinprō-
- Proto-Indo-European*dewk-
- Proto-Indo-European*déwkti
- Proto-Italic*doukō
- Latindūcō
- Latinprōdūcō
- Late Latinprōductīvus
- Englishproductive
- Englishproductivist
From productive + -ist.
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APA
productivist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/productivist
MLA
“productivist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/productivist. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “productivist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/productivist.
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