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LITIGIOUSNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does litigiousness mean?
• LITIGIOUSNESS (noun)
The noun LITIGIOUSNESS has 1 sense:
1. a quarrelsome disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits
Familiarity information: LITIGIOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quarrelsome disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
charges of litigiousness and widespread perjury
Hypernyms ("litigiousness" is a kind of...):
contentiousness; quarrelsomeness (an inclination to be quarrelsome and contentious)
Derivation:
litigious (inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits)
litigious (of or relating to litigation)
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