striving

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹaɪvɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ

Verb

striving

1. present participle and gerund of strive

Noun

striving (countable and uncountable, plural strivings)

1. Effort; the act of one who strives.
   • 1918, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine:

     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 […]

   • 2007, Steve Talbott, Devices of the Soul, page 192:

     Do we really want all those strivings and contrivings—all those thoughts and assumptions someone has cleverly etched into the hardware and software we are using—to remain invisible?