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COMPETITIVENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does competitiveness mean?
• COMPETITIVENESS (noun)
The noun COMPETITIVENESS has 1 sense:
1. an aggressive willingness to compete
Familiarity information: COMPETITIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An aggressive willingness to compete
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
competitiveness; fight
Context example:
the team was full of fight
Hypernyms ("competitiveness" is a kind of...):
aggressiveness (the quality of being bold and enterprising)
Derivation:
competitive (showing a fighting disposition)
competitive (involving competition or competitiveness)
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