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Striving

//ˈstɹaɪvɪŋ// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    Effort; the act of one who strives. countable, uncountable

    "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 […]"

  2. 2
    an effortful attempt to attain a goal wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of strive form-of, gerund, participle, present

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