Adaptive vs Conative - What's the difference?
adaptive | conative |
Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
* {{quote-book, author=Charles Darwin, title=, year=1859
, passage=The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent.}}
* {{quote-book, author=C. Lloyd Morgan, title=, year=1896
, passage=That variation of germinal origin is a fact in organic nature is admitted on all hands, and that some variations are adaptive is also unquestioned.}}
Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
(psychology) Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society.
Of or pertaining to a striving action.
As adjectives the difference between adaptive and conative
is that adaptive is of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable while conative is of or pertaining to a striving action.adaptive
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* (capable of being adapted) adaptable * adaptativeDerived terms
(Derived terms) * adaptively * adaptiveness * adaptivity * adaptive beamformer * adaptive behaviour * adaptive bridge * adaptive clothing * adaptive coding * adaptive communications * adaptive compression * adaptive enzyme * adaptive equalization * adaptive expectations * adaptive filter * adaptive hypertrophy * adaptive management * adaptive modulation * adaptive optics * adaptive predictive coding * adaptive radiation * adaptive resonance * adaptive reuse * adaptive routing * adaptive switching * adaptive system * adaptive technology * adaptive value * adaptive zoneReferences
* ----conative
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Alternative forms
* connativeAdjective
(-)- The conative , as opposed to the cognitive or affective, relates to purposeful, but not necessarily ultimately rational, action.