negative
adjective
expressing or containing negation or denial.
negativeness
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a word derived from
negative.
Example Sentences
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“If he was on a roster right now, all this negativeness and divisiveness could be turned into a positive,” Philadelphia Eagles defensive lineman Chris Long said at the meeting.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2018
When I figured out what was going on, I realized that the negativeness in my performance was the numbers of EU summits.
From Reuters ● Dec. 15, 2011
Is not our college training responsible for some of this melancholy negativeness of life?
From The Young Man and the World by Albert Jeremiah Beveridge
At midnight is the culmination of this negativeness, and hence the ghastly dread of that hour has a foundation in fact, and is not an idle superstition.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
There were more questions which he was longing to ask, but the cold negativeness of her manner chilled him.
From The Vanished Messenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
