单词 | positivity |
释义 | positivity|pɒzɪˈtɪvɪtɪ| [f. positive + -ity, cf. F. positivité, -eté.] The quality, character, or fact of being positive in various senses; positiveness.
1659H. Hickman (title) A Justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen: Shewing That they are not Selfe-condemned for denying the Positivity of Sin. 1678Gale Crt. Gentiles III. 8 We grant..that sin is not a mere nothing, but has some kind of logic positivitie or notional entitie, so far as to render it capable of being the terme of a proposition. 1741Watts Improv. Mind (1801) 75 Courage and positivity are never more necessary than on such an occasion. 1842Fraser's Mag. XXVI. 737 The most positive man I ever met with... There is positivity in his dark face, large eyebrows, stern features. 1858Mayne Expos. Lex., Positivity, term for the state of a body which manifests the phænomena of positive electricity. 1871Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. i. Carlyle 219 That truly free and adequate positivity which accepts all things as parts of a natural or historic order. †b. A positive or real thing as opposed to a mere negation; an actuality. Obs. rare.
1681Relig. Clerici 36 That Immaterial, Infinite and the like, were negatives indeed in words,..but properly and in themselves they were absolute positivities. |

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