Proactive

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1930s: from pro-2 (denoting earlier occurrence), on the pattern of reactive .


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pro- +‎  active; originally coined 1933 by Paul Whiteley and Gerald Blankfort in a psychology paper, used in technical sense. [1] [2] Used in a popular context and sense (courage, perseverance) in 1946 book Man’s Search for Meaning by  neuropsychiatristViktor Emil Frankl, in the context of dealing with the  Holocaust, as contrast with  reactive. 


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proactive (adj.)

also pro-active, of persons or policies, as an opposition to reactive, "taking the initiative in a situation, anticipating events" as opposed to responding to them, 1921, from pro- + active. From 1933, in psychology (learning theory). Related: Proactively; proactiveness; proactivity.