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Industrious vs Productivity - What's the difference?

industrious | productivity |

As an adjective industrious

is hard-working and persistent; worksome.

As a noun productivity is

the state of being productive, fertile or efficient.

industrious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Hard-working and persistent; worksome.
    • I was very industrious in my effort to learn unicycle riding.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * industriousness

    Related terms

    * industrial * industry

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    productivity

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia productivity) (productivities)
  • the state of being productive, fertile or efficient
  • the rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers
  • the rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land

    • Synonyms

    * productiveness (much less common)