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COMPETITIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does competitiveness mean? 

COMPETITIVENESS (noun)
  The noun COMPETITIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. an aggressive willingness to competeplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


COMPETITIVENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An aggressive willingness to compete

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

competitiveness; fight

Context example:

the team was full of fight

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

aggressiveness (the quality of being bold and enterprising)

Derivation:

competitive (showing a fighting disposition)

competitive (involving competition or competitiveness)


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