different between responsiveness vs respond

English

Etymology

responsive +? -ness

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???sp?ns?vn?s/

Noun

responsiveness (countable and uncountable, plural responsivenesses)

1. The quality or state of being responsive.
2. The ability of a machine to adjust to external influences.

Related terms

• responsivity

Derived terms

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French respondre (Modern répondre), from Latin responde?.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nd

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???sp?nd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???sp?nd/

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???sp?nd/, /??i??sp?nd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???sp?nd/

Verb

respond (third-person singular simple present responds, present participle responding, simple past and past participle responded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply.

   to respond to a question or an argument

2. (intransitive) To act in return; to carry out an action or in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To correspond with; to suit.

   • For his great deeds respond his speeches great.

4. (transitive) To satisfy; to answer.

   The prisoner was held to respond the judgment of the court.

5. (intransitive) To be liable for payment.

Derived terms

• responder
• responsive

Translations

Noun

respond (plural responds)

1. A response.
2. A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
3. (architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.

Related terms

• response
• responsible
• responsibleness
• responsibly
• responsibility
• responsive
• responsively
• responsiveness

See also

• react

References

• respond in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• respond in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Ponders, ponders