negativeness

1. 1.

   the character of the negative electric pole

   Synonymsnegativity

   Antonymspositiveness

   Broaderpolarity
2. 2.

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

   Synonymsnegativitynegativism

   Antonymspositiveness

   Broaderquality
3. 3.

   an amount less than zero

   Synonymsnegativity

   Antonymspositiveness

   Broaderamount

Other forms of negativeness

plural

negativenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about negativeness

What does negativeness mean?

negativeness means "the character of the negative electric pole". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in negativeness?

negativeness has 5 syllables: ne-ga-ti-ve-ness. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for negativeness?

Close synonyms include negativity, negativity, negativism, negativity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of negativeness?

The recorded antonyms are positiveness, positiveness, positiveness.

Is negativeness a common word?

negativeness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.