Usually means: Resistance to criticism or attack.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. defensiveness: Merriam-Webster
  2. defensiveness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defensiveness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. defensiveness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Defensiveness, defensiveness: Wordnik
  6. defensiveness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. defensiveness: Wiktionary
  8. defensiveness: Dictionary.com
  9. Defensiveness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. defensiveness: Rhymezone
  11. defensiveness: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  12. defensiveness: FreeDictionary.org
  13. defensiveness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. defensiveness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defensiveness: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (defensiveness)

▸ noun:  The state or quality of being defensive.

Similar:
defensibility, defendership, defiantness, diffidentness, indefensibility, indefensibleness, offendedness, guardedness, defectiveness, protectedness, more...

Opposite:
openness, receptiveness, vulnerability, approachability

Types:
denial, blaming, excuses, counter-attack, stonewalling, diversion, deflecting, justifying, more...

Phrases:
tactile defensiveness, sensory defensiveness, White defensiveness, more...

Adjectives:
tactile, sensory, own, certain, such, less, extreme, more, psychological, greater, general

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Similar:
defensibility, defendership, defiantness, diffidentness, indefensibility, indefensibleness, offendedness, guardedness, defectiveness, protectedness, more...

Opposite:
openness, receptiveness, vulnerability, approachability

Types:
denial, blaming, excuses, counter-attack, stonewalling, diversion, deflecting, justifying, more...

Phrases:
tactile defensiveness, sensory defensiveness, White defensiveness, more...

Adjectives:
tactile, sensory, own, certain, such, less, extreme, more, psychological, greater, general



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