Word Meanings - POSITIVENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: POSITIVENESS

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POSITIVENESS)

• Certainty
• Assurance
• demonstrableness
• positiveness
• unquestionableness
• confidence
• conviction

Related words: (words related to POSITIVENESS)

• CONFIDENCE
  1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in
• CONVICTION
  A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal. Conviction may accrue two ways. Blackstone. 3. The act of convincing of
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• POSITIVENESS
  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
• ASSURANCE
  Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed. Note: In England, the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom. Blackstone. (more info) 1. The act of
• DEMONSTRABLENESS
  The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrability.
• SELF-CONFIDENCE
  The quality or state of being self-confident; self-reliance. A feeling of self-confidence which supported and sustained him. Beaconsfield.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• SELF-CONVICTION
  The act of convicting one's self, or the state of being self- convicted.
• REASSURANCE
  See REINSURANCE (more info) 1. Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated. Prynne.
• UNCONFIDENCE
  Absence of confidence; uncertainty; doubt.
• INCERTAINTY
  Uncertainty. Shak.
• PREASSURANCE
  Previous assurance. Coleridge.
• OVERCONFIDENCE
  Excessive confidence; too great reliance or trust.