Productivity \Pro`duc*tiv"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. --Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. --Coleridge.
productivity n 1: the quality of being productive or having the power to produce [syn: {productiveness}] [ant: {unproductiveness}] 2: (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time