POSITIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does positiveness mean? 

• POSITIVENESS (noun)
  The noun POSITIVENESS has 5 senses:

1. the character of the positive electric pole

2. a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness

3. the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome

4. an amount greater than zero

5. the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about

  Familiarity information: POSITIVENESS used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSITIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The character of the positive electric pole

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

positiveness; positivity

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

positiveness; positivism; positivity

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 3

Meaning:

The quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

advantageousness; favorableness; favourableness; positiveness; positivity; profitableness

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:

An amount greater than zero

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

positiveness; positivity

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 5

Meaning:

The quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

incontrovertibility; incontrovertibleness; positiveness; positivity

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

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

 Context examples 

"Nay," answered the old man with gentle positiveness.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"I saw the other one run off across the snow," Bill announced with cool positiveness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"Mark my words!" he cried with abrupt positiveness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the Houyhnhnms.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She nodded her head with positiveness. "I am sure of it."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This project could not be of any great expense to the public; and might in my poor opinion, be of much use for the despatch of business, in those countries where senates have any share in the legislative power; beget unanimity, shorten debates, open a few mouths which are now closed, and close many more which are now open; curb the petulancy of the young, and correct the positiveness of the old; rouse the stupid, and damp the pert.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)