Usually means: Eliciting strong reactions or emotions.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word provocativeness:

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

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. provocativeness: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. provocativeness: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (provocativeness)

▸ noun:  The quality of being provocative; provocative behaviour.

Similar:
provokingness, provocability, offensivity, unprovocativeness, pushfulness, aggressiveness, confrontationality, promotiveness, offensiveness, rousingness, more...

Opposite:
modesty, reserve, demureness, shyness, reticence

Types:
risque, scandalous, shocking, taboo, unacceptable, more...

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Similar:
provokingness, provocability, offensivity, unprovocativeness, pushfulness, aggressiveness, confrontationality, promotiveness, offensiveness, rousingness, more...

Opposite:
modesty, reserve, demureness, shyness, reticence

Types:
risque, scandalous, shocking, taboo, unacceptable, more...



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