Imporveness vs Improvement - What's the difference?
imporveness | improvement |
The act of improving]]; advancement or growth; [[promote, promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.
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, title= The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
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The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old.
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Increase; growth; progress; advance.
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(plural): Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
(Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
As a noun improvement is
the act of improving]]; advancement or growth; [[promote|promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.imporveness
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Imporveness has no English definition. It may be misspelled.English words similar to 'imporveness':
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(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* emprovement (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- I look upon your city as the best place of improvement .
- Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
- A good improvement of his reason.
- I shall make some improvement of this doctrine.
- The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet.
- There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays.
- Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity.