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DEFENSIVE ATTITUDE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does defensive attitude mean?
• DEFENSIVE ATTITUDE (noun)
The noun DEFENSIVE ATTITUDE has 1 sense:
1. an attitude of defensiveness (especially in the phrase 'on the defensive')
Familiarity information: DEFENSIVE ATTITUDE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An attitude of defensiveness (especially in the phrase 'on the defensive')
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
defensive; defensive attitude
Hypernyms ("defensive attitude" is a kind of...):
attitude; mental attitude (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways)
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