negativity
消极性,消极主义,消极,否定性
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Definitions
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- : expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
- : refusing consent, as to a proposal: a negative reply to my request.
- : expressing refusal to do something: He maintained a negative attitude about cooperating.
- : prohibitory, as a command or order.
- : characterized by the absence of distinguishing or marked qualities or features; lacking positive attributes: a dull, lifeless, negative character.
- : lacking in constructiveness, helpfulness, optimism, cooperativeness, or the like: a man of negative viewpoint.
- : encouraging or noting an unhealthy or unbalanced outlook toward something, especially toward sex or sexuality:The song has a body-negative message.
- : being without rewards, results, or effectiveness: a search of the premises proved negative.
- : Mathematics, Physics. involving or noting subtraction; minus.measured or proceeding in the direction opposite to that which is considered as positive.
- : Photography. noting an image in which the brightness values of the subject are reproduced so that the lightest areas are shown as the darkest.
- : Electricity. of, relating to, or characterized by negative electricity. indicating a point in a circuit that has a lower potential than that of another point, the current flowing from the point of higher potential to the point of lower potential.
- : Medicine/Medical. failing to indicate the presence of a specified medical condition or substance. failing to indicate the presence of the medical condition or substance tested for:Test results for skin cancer were negative. not having a specified medical condition, or not having a specified substance in the body:She tested negative for a staph infection.I'm Rh-negative.
- : Chemistry. tending to gain electrons and become negatively charged; acid.
- : Physiology. responding in a direction away from the stimulus.
- : of, relating to, or noting the south pole of a magnet.
- : Logic. denying the truth of the predicate with regard to the subject.
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- : a negative statement, answer, word, gesture, etc.: The ship signaled back a negative.
- : a refusal of assent: to answer a request with a negative.
- : the negative form of statement.
- : a person or number of persons arguing against a resolution, statement, etc., especially a team upholding the negative side in a formal debate.
- : a negative quality or characteristic.
- : disadvantage; drawback: The plan is generally brilliant, but it has one or two negatives.
- : a negative test result:Her test for the infection was a negative.
- : Mathematics. a minus sign.a negative quantity or symbol.
- : Photography. a negative image, as on a film, used chiefly for making positives.
- : Electricity. the negative plate or element in a voltaic cell.
- : Archaic. a veto, or right of veto: The delegation may exercise its negative.
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- : : “You won't come with us?” “Negative.”
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neg·a·tived, neg·a·tiv·ing.
- : to deny; contradict.
- : to refute or disprove.
- : to refuse assent or consent to; veto.
- : to neutralize or counteract.
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- : : Negative, pilot—complete your mission as directed.
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Examples
The researchers converted the data to a logarithmic scale, which shows negative numbers.
That was after he tested negative in each of two separate tests for the virus.
Ten days after the patient developed symptoms the first time, he tested negative for antibodies against the virus.
Ad retargeting specialist Criteo is bracing itself for the negative impact.
They also thought real GDP would grow by about 8 percentage points quarter-over-quarter in the third quarter, with an upper-bound estimate of 17 percent and little chance of negative growth again.
There was “some note of caution” attached to hiring Knox, thanks to the negativity from the case, Robinson said.
It seeks to neuter the criticism of any lurking Paltrow naysayers wishing to transfer their negativity to Lively.
We choose darkness and negativity over positivity and light.
Tyson and Roethlisberger both returned to their respective sports, but not without the looming cloud of negativity and suspicion.
That fact alone permits Christie loyalists to greet the new negativity with a healthy degree of sangfroid.
The sign of excitation is, as we found, a contraction and concomitant galvanometric negativity.
A is seen to exhibit induced change of galvanometric negativity.
The upper side of a horizontally laid shoot is found to undergo an excitatory change of galvanometric negativity.
The maximum galvanometric negativity of the upper side was found to occur at the geo-perceptive layer.
The points of maximum positivity and negativity are situated symmetrically on the opposite sides of the organ.