defensiveness
adjectiveHow many syllables in defensiveness?
There are 4 syllables in the word defensiveness.How to pronounce defensiveness:
Definition of defensiveness:
- defensiveness (adjective):
- serving to defend or protect
Synonyms for defensiveness:
frequency response
hypersensitivity
insensitive
oversensitivity
physical property
sensitivity
thin skin
touchiness
twitchiness
Antonyms for defensiveness:
acceptance
amenability
aplomb
assurance
ataraxia
ataraxy
bashfulness
calm
calmness
collectedness
composedness
composure
confidence
cool
cool-headedness
coolness
countenance
demureness
detachment
determination
diffidence
equanimity
equilibrium
even-temperedness
humbleness
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- daddario
- custard apple
- cultivated
- cryptically
- crucifixion
- cruciferous
- criticizing
- criteria
- criminalize
- crepuscular
- crepehangers
- cowardliness
- counterbalance
- cosmology
- coruscation
- correlation
- corporeal
- corporation
- cornelius
- coricidin
- coquettishness
- coquettishly
- copernicus
- copernican
- copenhagen
- convocation
- conveyor belt
- convalescent
- contraflexure
- contradictor
- contradicting
- contingency
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