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NEGATIVISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does negativism mean? 

NEGATIVISM (noun)
  The noun NEGATIVISM has 1 sense:

1. characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commandsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


NEGATIVISM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

negativeness; negativism; negativity

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

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Derivation:

negativist (someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions)


 Context examples 


A subtype of schizophrenia characterized by a psychomotor disturbance that may involve motoric immobility, excessive motor activity, extreme negativism or mutism, peculiarities of voluntary movement, echolalia, and/or echopraxia.

(Catatonic Type Schizophrenia, NCI Thesaurus)



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