progressiveness
- n advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods
- Advocates of the social liberalization say it has turned the Mexican capital into a beacon of progressiveness in a sea of backwardness that has long dogged Latin America.
- Admitting that the magazine had "fallen by the wayside," Editor Doubleday promised renewed vigor, interest, progressiveness under his leadership.
- That progressiveness is not, by and large, imposed the majority of Spaniards support all those measures.