negativity

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Etymology

From negative +‎ -ity.

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negativity (countable and uncountable, plural negativities)

  1. The characteristic of being pessimistic or contrarian.
  2. Negative sentiment.
    • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 7:
      Leaving aside the abundance of negativity for the time being, in aggregate these attempts at definition speak to the multitude of linguistic phenomena characteristic of language hybridity in multilingual settings, albeit explained with differing emphases by different definers.
  3. (physics) The characteristic of having a negative charge.

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