Category:Positiveness

Pos"i*tive*ness, n.

Defn: the quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; Certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See positive, a. Positiveness, pedantry, and ill manners. Swift. The positiveness of sins of commission lies both in the habitude of The will and in the executed act too; the positiveness of sins of Omission is in the habitude of the will only. Norris.