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defensivenesses

defensivenesses is the plural of defensiveness.

Meaning of defensiveness

Noun

defensiveness (usually uncountable, plural defensivenesses)

  1. (usually) The state or quality of being defensive.
    • The gay vs. straight confrontation has been dealt with before in movies and plays but never with the gay character in control and never so free of defensiveness or homosexual guilt.1976 February 7, Don Shewey, “Haunted Host (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 14

Questions about defensivenesses

What is defensivenesses the plural of?
Defensivenesses is the plural of defensiveness.

Words near defensivenesses in the dictionary

  1. defensive wounds
  2. defensive zone
  3. defensive zones
  4. defensively
  5. defensiveness
  6. defensivenesses
  7. defensives
  8. defensome
  9. defensomes
  10. defensor
  11. defensories

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