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    POSITIVENESS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing aboutplay

    Synonyms:

    incontrovertibility; incontrovertibleness; positiveness; positivity

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("positiveness" is a kind of...):

    indisputability; indubitability; unquestionability; unquestionableness (the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    An amount greater than zeroplay

    Synonyms:

    positiveness; positivity

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("positiveness" is a kind of...):

    amount (the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion)

    Antonym:

    negativeness (an amount less than zero)

    Sense 3

    Meaning:

    The quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcomeplay

    Synonyms:

    advantageousness; favorableness; favourableness; positiveness; positivity; profitableness

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("positiveness" is a kind of...):

    advantage; vantage (the quality of having a superior or more favorable position)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "positiveness"):

    auspiciousness; propitiousness (the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result)

    Sense 4

    Meaning:

    A quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertivenessplay

    Synonyms:

    positiveness; positivism; positivity

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("positiveness" is a kind of...):

    quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "positiveness"):

    assertiveness; self-assertiveness (aggressive self-assurance; given to making bold assertions)

    Antonym:

    negativeness (characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands)

    Derivation:

    positive (marked by excessive confidence)

    positive (characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.)

    positive (of or relating to positivism)

    Sense 5

    Meaning:

    The character of the positive electric poleplay

    Synonyms:

    positiveness; positivity

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

    Hypernyms ("positiveness" is a kind of...):

    polarity; sign (having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges))

    Antonym:

    negativeness (the character of the negative electric pole)

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