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nisus
nisus Nisus is a historical term for an inbuilt striving in a changing process to push past obstacles toward its proper outcome.
Nisus is a historical term for an inbuilt striving in a changing process to push past obstacles toward its proper outcome. In Leibniz’s usage, it refers to an active tendency that remains present even when its expression is blocked; “nisus formativus” was also used for a supposed built-in drive in an embryo to develop the form of its species.