negativity

Other forms of negativity

plural

negativities·

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 negativity

What does negativity mean?

negativity means "the character of the negative electric pole". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in negativity?

negativity has 5 syllables: neg-a-tiv-i-ty. The stress falls on "tiv". In IPA it is /ˌnɛɡəˈtɪvəti/.

What is another word for negativity?

Close synonyms include negativeness, negativeness, negativism, negativeness, electronegativity. 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 negativity?

The recorded antonyms are positivity, positivity, positivity.

Is negativity a common word?

negativity is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with negativity?

11 words rhyme with negativity. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.