striving

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of strive

noun

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

   “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?”