Usually means: Harmful, aggressive behavior towards others.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. abusiveness: Merriam-Webster
  2. abusiveness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abusiveness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. abusiveness: Wordnik
  5. abusiveness: Wiktionary
  6. Abusiveness, abusiveness: Dictionary.com
  7. Abusiveness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. abusiveness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Abusiveness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. abusiveness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. abusiveness: FreeDictionary.org
  12. abusiveness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. abusiveness: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. abusiveness: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person.

Similar:
rudeness, brutality, abrasiveness, brutalness, aggressiveness, abstersiveness, abusefulness, brutishness, brusqueness, brutedom, more...

Opposite:
kindness, respect, consideration, gentleness

Types:
physical, verbal, emotional, psychological, sexual, more...

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Similar:
rudeness, brutality, abrasiveness, brutalness, aggressiveness, abstersiveness, abusefulness, brutishness, brusqueness, brutedom, more...

Opposite:
kindness, respect, consideration, gentleness

Types:
physical, verbal, emotional, psychological, sexual, more...



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