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Meanings of negativeness in English

Catalan
negativisme
Spanish
negatividad

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

negativisme
Usage of negativeness in English
1
There is not positiveness enough in him; negativeness never accomplishes anything.
Pushing to the Front
2
But what is to be done against the negativeness of such polite indifference?
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
3
Marie wasn't negative enough-shewasn't positive enough in her negativeness-toplunge into dissipation.
Stories from Everybody's Magazine
4
Is not our college training responsible for some of this melancholy negativeness of life?
The Young Man and the World
5
Political advertising on TV reached new levels in negativeness.
The new yorker
6
Two men servants stood at the sideboard a few yards away, a triumph of negativeness.
The Vanished Messenger
7
The meagreness or negativeness of their content has been in an inverse ratio to their power.
The Republic
8
That our whole quasi-existence is an intermediate stage between positiveness and negativeness or realness and unrealness.
The Book of the Damned
9
Beware of negativeness, by which we mean indigestion.
The Book of the Damned
10
By neat workmanship he could lift from negligences any reproach of negativeness and turn them into positive wounds.
The Judge
11
There were more questions which he was longing to ask, but the cold negativeness of her manner chilled him.
The Vanished Messenger
12
So it is in intermediateness, where only to "be" positive is to generate corresponding and, perhaps, equal negativeness.
The Book of the Damned
13
There is not positiveness enough in him; negativeness never accomplishes anything.
Pushing to the Front
14
But what is to be done against the negativeness of such polite indifference?
Jean-Christophe, Volume I
15
Marie wasn't negative enough-shewasn't positive enough in her negativeness-toplunge into dissipation.
Stories from Everybody's Magazine
16
Is not our college training responsible for some of this melancholy negativeness of life?
The Young Man and the World
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Negativeness through the time