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positivity

Word definitions for positivity in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation [syn: positivism ] [ant: negativism ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Positivity " is the first single from the album A New Morning by Suede , released on September 16, 2002 on Columbia Records .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from positive (adj.) + -ity .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The condition of being positive (in all senses); positivism 2 (context countable English) The result of being positive.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Positivity \Pos`i*tiv"i*ty\, n. Positiveness. --J. Morley.

Usage examples of positivity.

When you act like you already possess it, then like a magnet, your aura of confidence and positivity will attract more Fabulosity to you.

Surreptitiously, they lead the sciences of life, labour, and language back to that analytic of finitude which shows how man, in his being, can be concerned with the things he knows, and know the things that, in positivity, determine his mode of being.

Its scope, the depth of the strata it has affected, all the positivities it has succeeded in disintegrating and recomposing, the sovereign power that has enabled it, in only a few years, to traverse the entire space of our culture, all this could be appraised and measured only after a quasi-infinite investigation concerned with nothing more nor less than the very being of our modernity.

This is not a historicist positivity but, on the contrary, a positivity of the res gestae of the multitude, an antagonistic and creative positivity.

There would thus be a discipline that could cover in a single movement both the dimension of ethnology that relates the human sciences to the positivities in which they are framed and the dimension of psychoanalysis that relates the knowledge of man to the finitude that gives it its foundation.

Suddenly, with her arrival, the positivities of another being had had to be taken into account.