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Meanings of positiveness in English

Portuguese
benefício
Catalan
profit
Spanish
provecho

The quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome.

      benefício
      Portuguese
      positivismo
      Catalan
      positivisme

      A quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness.

          positivismo

          The quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about.

                Usage of positiveness in English
                1
                There is no vigor in his initiative, no positiveness in his energy.
                Pushing to the Front
                2
                I wish you would meet my son-in-law, Mr. Tanner said with positiveness.
                John Wesley, Jr. / The Story of an Experiment
                3
                The fear of ridicule was struggling with the natural positiveness of his temper.
                Murad the Unlucky, and Other Tales
                4
                There is not positiveness enough in him; negativeness never accomplishes anything.
                Pushing to the Front
                5
                So what's left to get some positiveness happening in the athletics?
                News.com.au
                6
                The oddness of the circumstances, and the positiveness of Frank, displeased your brother.
                Anna St. Ives
                7
                Perhaps there was something there which might dim the positiveness of his resolution.
                The Mystery of Orcival
                8
                She varied her phrase, with the same incongruous effect of positiveness.
                Under Western Eyes
                9
                It is well to avoid discursiveness, over-use of parentheses, and positiveness of statement.
                Talks on Talking
                10
                She shook her head with a quaint, fascinating expression of positiveness.
                The Conflict
                11
                Then he went on quickly, with a tone of utmost positiveness.
                Within the Law: From the Play of Bayard Veiller
                12
                Richard's positiveness made a deeper impression on her than she liked to acknowledge.
                Georgina of the Rainbows
                13
                His wrong-headedness, one-sidedness, narrowness, positiveness, are characteristic of his priestly office.
                Euthyphro
                14
                Now the element of positiveness in our composition yearns for the appearance of completeness.
                The Book of the Damned
                15
                He moved as a gentleman moves; of this I can speak with great positiveness.
                That Affair Next Door
                16
                There was a positiveness in his voice that awoke thoughts of death and violence.
                Golden Stories / A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost...
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                Translations for positiveness
                Spanish
                provecho
                Positiveness through the time
                Positiveness across language varieties
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