subversiveness
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- noun
- /səbˈvɜːrsɪvnəs/
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subversividad
- Subversiveness was evident in the way he questioned authority and inspired others to think differently.
Examples
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There was undoubtedly subversiveness in the superheroine, particularly in her relationship to women's rights.
Academic text (2012) -
What doesn't sit well from a casual perspective is knowing full well the nature of lies and subversiveness that some religious groups have decided to undertake.
Blog text (27) -
But you know, I, I think the, the, the, the audience for subversiveness is a niche audience at this point in America.
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Subversiveness has always been my downfall.
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Education, nevertheless, can be the method by which steampunk's subversiveness can come to the forefront.
Blog text (22) -
" The subversiveness of the notion and the political implications of that subversion are wide-sweeping.
Academic text (2009) -
Whether intended by the playwright or not, the mythic genealogy proposed in La piedra clearly contains the roots of subversiveness.
Academic text (1998) -
Perhaps, then, we need to measure the potential subversiveness of Leontine's example by some yardstick other than the self-consciousness with which Pixerecourt endows his heroine.
Academic text (1993) -
Many feminist critics, however, value precisely what Bloom and Stevens find threatening to the masculinist myth of self-fashioning: the potential subversiveness of intertextuality, community, and influence.
Fiction book (1993) -
Ironically, their secretiveness was now being misread—thus socially and politically transformed—as a sign of subversiveness, backwardness, and wrong-thinking.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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To try to weaken or overthrow a government
Antonyms
How Subversive
Surface Forms
Morphology
subversiveness = subversive (transparent) = subvert + ive + ness
Formed by a regular nominalization of the adjective 'subversive' with '-ness'; the meaning follows directly from 'subvert' → 'subversive' → 'subversiveness'.
Etymology
Subversiveness comes from the parts sub- 'under' and vers 'turn', the same root as reverse ('turn back'). So subversiveness is like 'turning things from under' — quietly trying to weaken or overthrow a system.