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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

But what is to be done against the negativeness of such polite indifference?

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Cannan, Gilbert

And, lo! in this very negativeness lies the whole secret of the multifarious positiveness of tails.

From Concerning Animals and Other Matters by Aitken, Edward Hamilton

All nervous diseases are aggravated by the coming of twilight, and midnight is the hour when the most perfect negativeness is reached, as high noon is that of extreme positiveness.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson