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Definition of Positivities
1. positivity [n] - See also: positivity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Positivities
Literary usage of Positivities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Electricity, the chemistry of ether: A Treatise Generalizing a Fundamental by George Adam (1904)
"Thus its molecule will have an inductive potential of 6000 positivities, or 3000
actively ... The positivities of the molecule are estimated at 201000, ..."
2. Microbial and Phenotypic Definition of Rats and Mice: Proceedings of the by National Research Council Staff, ebrary, Inc, National Research Council, International Committee, Commission on Life Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (1999)
"The number of positive items and their positivities are lower in pharmaceutical
companies than in universities and institutes. ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"Therefore, if A is kissed by B, and В by A at the same moment, their kisses are
both positivities, because they are both negativities, which is absurd. ..."
4. The Methodist Review (1858)
"Let us renounce theologies and philosophies, which are made up of guesses and
quarrels, and turn to the positivities of •cience, where the guesses are none ..."
5. Out-doors at Idlewild; Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson by Nathaniel Parker Willis (1855)
"... and positivities, which, I have found it a refreshing change from modern poetry
to make a lounge of—and I was soon, by permission, behind his counter, ..."
6. Concepts of the Electrical Phenomena of Planetary Systems by George Adam (1905)
"... sphere of negativities; and that the sun and planets, including our moon, are
positive bodies condensed within the central sphere of positivities. (Fig. ..."
7. A popular commentary on the New Testament by Daniel Denison Whedon (1874)
"... two upon Christian positivities, and three upon Christian activities. The three
activities on which he will now pronounce benedictions are ..."
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