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positive polarity items

positive polarity items is the plural of positive polarity item.

Meaning of positive polarity item

Noun

positive polarity item (plural positive polarity items)

  1. A polarity item that only appears in an affirmative (positive) licensing context.

Questions about positive polarity items

What is positive polarity items the plural of?
Positive polarity items is the plural of positive polarity item.

Words near positive polarity items in the dictionary

  1. positive organ
  2. positive organs
  3. positive parliamentarism
  4. positive pion
  5. positive polarity item
  6. positive polarity items
  7. positive pole
  8. positive poles
  9. positive Pollies
  10. positive Polly
  11. positive punk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: positive polarity items (page history and authors); positive polarity item (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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