Hypertext Webster Gateway: "positiveness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Positiveness \Pos"i*tive*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness;
certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See
{Positive}, a.
Positiveness, pedantry, and ill manners. --Swift.
The positiveness of sins of commission lies both in the
habitude of the will and in the executed act too; the
positiveness of sins of omission is in the habitude of
the will only. --Norris.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
positiveness
n : characterized by dogmatic assertiveness [ant: {negativeness}]
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