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AFFIRMATIVENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does affirmativeness mean?
• AFFIRMATIVENESS (noun)
The noun AFFIRMATIVENESS has 1 sense:
1. the agreeable quality of one who assents
Familiarity information: AFFIRMATIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The agreeable quality of one who assents
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("affirmativeness" is a kind of...):
agreeability; agreeableness (a temperamental disposition to be agreeable)
Derivation:
affirmative (expecting the best)
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