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Positivity

noun

The character of the positive electric pole. Synonym: positiveness.

A quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness. Synonyms: positiveness, positivism.

The quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome. Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, profitableness.

An amount greater than zero. Synonym: positiveness.

The quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about. Synonyms: incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, positiveness.

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"Positivity" Quotes from Famous Books

... Westphalia at the outset of the Seven Years' War. He was an able and helpful man, in spite of his having a rough manner, powdering his face, and being so monstrously scented as to earn the name of the musk-bear. He had that firmness and positivity which are not always beautiful, but of which there is probably too little rather than too much in the world, certainly in the France of his time, and of which there was none at all in Rousseau. Above all things he ...

— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley

... how long since has it been that you would, with at least equal positivity, have declared it impossible to enter a tornado while in wildest career, yet emerge from it with ...

— The Lost City • Joseph E. Badger, Jr.

Words linked to "Positivity" : negativity, auspiciousness, amount, propitiousness, sign, quality, unfavorableness, positive, indubitability, indisputability, negativeness, self-assertiveness, assertiveness, unquestionability, unquestionableness, polarity, vantage, advantage