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Definition of Negativeness

1. Noun. The character of the negative electric pole.

2. Noun. Characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands.

3. Noun. An amount less than zero.

Definition of Negativeness

1. n. The quality or state of being negative.

Definition of Negativeness

1. Noun. The characteristic of being negative; negativity. ¹

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Definition of Negativeness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Negativeness

negative stimulation negative stimulus negative strand virus negative stranded RNA virus negative taxis negative thermotaxis negative transference negative verb negative verbs negative zero

negatived negatively negatively bathmotropic negatively charged negatively dromotropic negativeness (current term) negativenesses negatives negativing negativism

negativisms negativist negativistic negativists negativities negativity negativization negativizations negativize negativized

Literary usage of Negativeness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Correlation Theory of Chemical Action and Affinity by Thomas Wright Hall (1888)
"The contracted, or hard, or dense, or infusible Pitch of Solidity is the greatest sign of Force negativeness. But even the Potential Solidity, ..."

2. Selections from Manuscripts by James Hinton (1874)
"So the ' negative' idea is relieved of all difficulty or peculiarity; it is simply regarding things in their relation: the nature of the negativeness ..."

3. Historical Development of Speculative Philosophy from Kant to Hegel by Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus (1854)
"Without such a fundamental unity negativeness itself is annihilated as that which it should be, viz. as contradiction and necessity, inasmuch as a duality ..."

4. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"Gram-negativeness appears to depend entirely on the presence of the staphylococci on the plate media. Staphylococcus albus and aureus from abscess, ..."

5. A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern by John Mackinnon Robertson (1915)
"Nor is the charge of negativeness any more generally valid against such freethinking as directly assails current doctrines. There may be, of course, ..."

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