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Definition: Positivity |
PositivityNoun1. A quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: PositivitySynonym: positivism (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: negativism (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Positivity |
| Specialty definitions using "positivity": Blastocystis Infections. (references) |
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Health | In addition, anti-HCV positivity may act as a surrogate marker for HBV infectious donors who are HBsAg negative. (references) | |
Although culturing the organism is traditionally considered the "gold standard" for diagnosis of many infectious agents, it is the least sensitive diagnostic test (approximately 70-80 percent positivity). (references) | ||
The completed studies are not large enough, nor is the followup long enough, to estimate with acceptable precision the interactions between menopausal status or steroid receptor positivity and the effects of adjuvant therapy in node negative patients. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Positivity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Positivity" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 56 | 45,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
positivity | 10 |
incognito positivity | 2 |
positivity uk.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "positivity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 阳. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | falsk positiv biologisk reaktion (biologically false positivity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | biologically false positivity (biologically false positivity), biologic false positive reaction (biologically false positivity), BFP (biologically false positivity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | positivité (positiveness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | biologically false positivity (biologically false positivity), biologic false positive reaction (biologically false positivity), BFP (Biologically false positive, biologically false positivity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ψευδής θετική οροαντίδραση (biologically false positivity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ו"אות (certainty, certitude, sureness), חיוביות (positiveness), חיוב (affirmation, conviction, obligation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | positivit . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 陽性 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ようせい (application, claim, demand, development, elf, fairy, larva, larvae, premature death, request, sprite, training). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 극. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ositivitypay positividad. (various references) sự xác thực (positiveness), sự rõ r ng sự quả quyết (positiveness), sự khẳng định (affirmation, assertion, averment, avouchment, positiveness), sự chắc chắn giọng quả quyết (positiveness), giọng dứt khoát (positiveness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "positivity": seropositivity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "positivity" (pronounced 'Pos`i*tiv"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-i-o-p-s-t-t-v-y" | |
-3 letters: piosity. | |
-4 letters: otitis, pivots, spotty, typist. | |
-5 letters: pivot, posit, potsy, potty, stopt, tipis, tipsy, titis, toits, topis, typos, visit. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-i-o-p-s-t-t-v-y" | |
+4 letters: seropositivity. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 73 69 74 69 76 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- ... .. - .. ...- .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o s i t i v i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0073 0069 0074 0069 0076 0069 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50818575867588758691 |
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