Usually means: Desire for approval or acceptance.
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  1. approbativeness: Wordnik
  2. approbativeness: Wiktionary
  3. Approbativeness, approbativeness: Dictionary.com
  4. Approbativeness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Approbativeness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. approbativeness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Approbativeness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. approbativeness: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Approbativeness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (approbativeness)

▸ noun:  The state or quality of being approbative.

Similar:
approvableness, approvability, appraisability, appliableness, admissability, admissibility, capableness, applicableness, allowableness, allowability, more...

Opposite:
disapprobation, disapproval, condemnation

Adjectives:
large, small, excessive, emulative, gentle

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Similar:
approvableness, approvability, appraisability, appliableness, admissability, admissibility, capableness, applicableness, allowableness, allowability, more...

Opposite:
disapprobation, disapproval, condemnation

Adjectives:
large, small, excessive, emulative, gentle



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