negativeness Definition

negative
adj

1. Meaning or saying ‘no'; expressing denial, refusal or prohibition. Opposite of affirmative.
2. Said of people or attitudes, etc: unenthusiastic, defeatist or pessimistic.

Thesaurus: contrary, antagonistic, uncooperative, unwilling, unenthusiastic, cynical, dissenting, nay-saying, jaundiced, pessimistic; Antonym: optimistic, upbeat, positive.
3. logic.
Denying the connection between a subject and a predicate.
4. math.
Less than zero.
5. Contrary to, or cancelling the effect of, whatever is regarded as positive.

Thesaurus: negating, nullifying, negatory, annulling, contradicting, neutralizing.
6. math.
Measured in the opposite direction to that chosen as positive.
7. elec.
Having the kind of electric charge produced by an excess of electrons.
8. photog.
Said of film: having the light and shade of the actual image reversed, or complementary colours in place of actual ones.
9. biol.
In a direction away from the source of stimulus.

noun

1. A word, statement or grammatical form expressing denial.

Example: replied in the negative
Thesaurus: refusal, denying, contradiction, opposite, disavowal, refutation, thumbs down, nix (US).
2. A photographic film with a negative image, from which prints are made.

verb negatived, negativing

1. To reject something; to veto it.
2. To deny something.
3. To neutralize or cancel out something.
4. To disprove or prove the contrary of positive or affirmative. Compare positive.

Derivative: negatively
adverb

Derivative: negativeness
noun

Etymology: 16c: from Latin negativus, from negare to deny.