competitiveness
Syllables: com·pet·i·tive·ness/kəmˈpɛtɪtɪvnəs/
competitiveness noun: the state of being competitive.
Noun
competitiveness (uncountable)
- The state of being competitive.
- Manhattanville College in Purchase, N. Y., has joined a small but growing [movement] back to the practice of awarding letter grades after a year's experiment with a nonletter system that was seen as a way of reducing the competitiveness and authoritarian quality of [letter] grading.1973 June 2, Iver Peterson, “Campus Notes Grant Made for Study‐Incentive Plan”, in The New York Times
- Synonyms:
- competitivity
Synonyms of competitiveness
Origin of competitiveness
From competitive + -ness.
Words formed from competitiveness
Questions about competitiveness
- What does competitiveness mean?
- Competitiveness means the state of being competitive.
- What part of speech is competitiveness?
- Competitiveness is a noun.
- How do you pronounce competitiveness?
- Competitiveness is pronounced /kəmˈpɛtɪtɪvnəs/.
Words near competitiveness in the dictionary
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