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AFFIRMATIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does affirmativeness mean? 

AFFIRMATIVENESS (noun)
  The noun AFFIRMATIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the agreeable quality of one who assentsplay

  Familiarity information: AFFIRMATIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AFFIRMATIVENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The agreeable quality of one who assents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("affirmativeness" is a kind of...):

agreeability; agreeableness (a temperamental disposition to be agreeable)

Derivation:

affirmative (expecting the best)


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