Striving

Definitions

Effort; the act of one who strives.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Repudiating the excessive sexualism of Freud and insisting upon the importance of the food-seeking impulse, especially in childhood, he regards all the primary impulses as differentiations of one fundamental energy, the life force⟳ which sustains all our strivings, both conscious and unconscious […]”

“Sexual virility, coital potency rides high and arrogant over the commercial, artistic, social strivings of contemporary society[.]”

“Do we really want⟳ all those strivings and contrivings—all those thoughts and assumptions someone has cleverly etched into the hardware and software we are using—to remain⟳ invisible?”

CEFR level