argumentativeness
- noun
- /ˌɑrɡjʊˈmɛntətɪvnəs/
:
argumentatividad
- The teacher noted the student's argumentativeness in class discussions, which sometimes led to productive debates.
Examples
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Her constant argumentativeness made it difficult for her to maintain friendships.
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Participants are expected to speak simply and to the point without repetition, rhetorical flourishes, or argumentativeness.
Academic text (1993) -
Covert narcissists are prone to chronic argumentativeness, especially around issues that may be polarizing and inflammatory.
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Covert narcissists are prone to chronic argumentativeness, especially around issues that may be polarizing and inflammatory.
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In another prospective investigation, ease of anger arousal, argumentativeness, and irritability predicted poor survival among men with a history of heart disease in Finland (Koskenvuo et al., 1988).
Academic text (1996) -
His argumentativeness often frustrated his colleagues, but they appreciated his passion for the subject.
Synonyms
1
8.4
A habit of arguing and causing disagreement
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7.5
A willingness to argue or fight
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9.1
A strong willingness to argue or fight
A tendency to argue with others
A habit of arguing or disagreeing with others often
A habit of being bad-tempered and hard to get along with
A habit of starting arguments or fights
A quick angry way of behaving that leads to arguments
Antonyms
How Argumentative
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7.9
1
8.4
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5.3
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3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
argumentativeness = argumentative (transparent) = argumentative + ness
Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'argumentative', so the meaning is directly the quality of being argumentative.
Etymology
Argumentativeness comes from the base argument (a disagreement or a reason) plus the endings -ative ('tending to') and -ness ('the state of'). So, it means the state of often arguing or disagreeing with others.