Positiveness

Definition: Positiveness

Positiveness

Noun

1. Characterized by dogmatic assertiveness.

Date "positiveness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)

Antonym: negativeness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Certainty	Gospel, scripture, church, pope, court of final appeal; res judicata, ultimatum positiveness; dogmatism, dogmatist, dogmatizer; doctrinaire, bigot, opinionist, Sir Oracle; ipse dixit.
Existence	Reality, actuality; positiveness; Adjective: fact, matter of fact, sober reality; truth; actual existence.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Positiveness

English words defined with "positiveness": Dogmaticalness ♦ Peremptoriness. (references)

Author	Quotation
Laurence Sterne	Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	There was mingled with them, however, life, humanity, all the positiveness of which Marius was capable.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the Houyhnhnms.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Positiveness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Positiveness" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	5	157,705

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "positiveness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏واقعية (pragmatism), ‏إيجابية. (various references)

Bulgarian		позитивност (positivety), положителност (certainty). (various references)

Finnish		ehdottomuus (absoluteness). (various references)

French		positivité (positivity). (various references)

German		Bestimmtheit (certainty, definiteness, determinateness, determination, dogmaticalness, finality, firmness, positiviness). (various references)

Hebrew		חיוביות (positivity). (various references)

Hungarian		ténylegesség (factuality), határozottság (definiteness, firmness, fixity of purpose, grittiness, manliness, resoluteness, resolve, robustness, spiritedness, steadiness, stoutness, sturdiness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		積極性 (assertiveness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せっきょくせい (assertiveness). (various references)

Manx		jarrooid. (various references)

Pig Latin		ositivenesspay

Romanian		caracter sigur. (various references)

Russian		положительность. (various references)

Spanish		lo positivo. (various references)

Turkish		pozitif olma, olumluluk, kesinlik (accuracy, assuredness, certainty, certitude, conclusiveness, decisiveness, definiteness, demonstrativeness, downrightness, exactitude, exactness, finality, firmness, implicitness, nicety, preciseness, precision, rigor, rigour, roundness, sureness, surety, the absolute), inanç (affiance, belief, confidence, conscience, conviction, credence, credo, creed, cult, dogma, faith, faithfulness, opinion, opinions, persuasion, reliance, religion, tenet), güven (affiance, assurance, belief, confidence, credence, credit, dependance, dependence, faith, reliance, sureness, trust). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự xác thực (positivity), sự rõ r� ng sự quả quyết (positivity), sự khẳng định (affirmation, assertion, averment, avouchment, positivity), sự chắc chắn giọng quả quyết (positivity), giọng dứt khoát (positivity). (various references)

Welsh		pendantrwydd. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "positiveness": positivenesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "positiveness" (pronounced 'Pos"i*tive*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-i-n-o-p-s-s-s-t-v"
	-2 letters: sensitives, venosities.
	-3 letters: essonites, ostensive, positives, sensitise, sensitive, tipsiness.
	-4 letters: enosises, essonite, inosites, invitees, isospins, noesises, noisiest, pentoses, poetises, positive, posteens, sestines, sienites, sonsiest, spiniest, stenoses, stenosis, stepsons, veiniest, vitesses.
	-5 letters: eosines, essoins, inosite, insists, insteps, invests, invitee, invites, ionises, isospin, nosiest, openest, osseins, penises, pensive, pentose, peonies, pieties, piniest, pinites, pintoes, pistons, poesies.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-i-n-o-p-s-s-s-t-v"
	+2 letters: positivenesses.
	+3 letters: prerevisionists.
	+4 letters: preservationists.
	+5 letters: competitivenesses, inoperativenesses, introspectiveness, prohibitivenesses.
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