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Definition of Negativisms
1. negativism [n] - See also: negativism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Negativisms
Literary usage of Negativisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"Moreover, they presented mannerisms, stereotypy, neologisms, negativisms, emotional
deterioration and delusions of an exceedingly absurd or ev^n impossible ..."
2. The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases by William Alanson White, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1913)
"The usual later development is that of peculiar dementia, occasionally accompanied
by the negativisms, mannerisms, stereo- typies, and other peculiarities ..."
3. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1908)
"... their general muscular reactions, both in the striped and unstriped muscles.
Physical negativisms, stereotypies, affectations of posture and of bearing, ..."
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