striving
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striving
- /ˈstɹaɪvɪŋ/
Rhymes with -aɪvɪŋ
verb
- present participle and gerund of strive
noun strivings
- Effort; the act of one who strives. Repudiating the excessive sexualism of Freud and insisting upon the importance of the food-seeking impulse, especially in childhood, he regards all the primary impulses as differentiations of one fundamental energy, the life force which sustains all our strivings, both conscious and unconscious […]
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Closest in meaning: nisus, pains, strain, endeavoring, endeavor, endeavour, endeavouring, effort, attempt, pursuing, trying, struggling, quest, struggle, seek, seeking
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