POSITIVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does positivity mean? 

• POSITIVITY (noun)
  The noun POSITIVITY 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: POSITIVITY used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSITIVITY (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 ("positivity" is a kind of...):

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

Antonym:

negativity (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 ("positivity" is a kind of...):

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

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

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

Antonym:

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

Derivation:

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

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 ("positivity" 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 "positivity"):

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 ("positivity" is a kind of...):

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

Antonym:

negativity (an amount less than zero)

Derivation:

positive (greater 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 ("positivity" is a kind of...):

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

Derivation:

positive (impossible to deny or disprove)

 Context examples 

A neoplasm of the skin composed of cells with markedly granular cytoplasm that exhibit strong S100 immunoperoxidase positivity.

(Granular Cell Tumor of the Mouse Skin, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

The most important prognostic indicator is ALK positivity, which has been associated with a favorable prognosis.

(Anaplastic large cell lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)