competitiveness en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /kəmˈpɛtɪtɪvnəs/
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Etymology
Etymology tree English competitive Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English competitiveness From competitive + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state of being competitive.
Manhattanville College in Purchase, N. Y., has joined a small but growing [movement] back to the practice of awarding letter grades after a year's experiment with a nonletter system that was seen as a way of reducing the competitiveness and authoritarian quality of [letter] grading.
1973 June 2, Iver Peterson, “Campus Notes Grant Made for Study‐Incentive Plan”, in The New York Times:
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it competitività (state of being competitive) · ca competitivitat (state of being competitive) · ro competitivitate (state of being competitive) · ru сопе́рничество (state of being competitive) · gl competitividade (state of being competitive) · de Wettbewerbsfähigkeit (state of being competitive) · fi kilpailukyky (state of being competitive) · hu versenyképesség (state of being competitive) · cs soutěživost (state of being competitive) · nl concurrentievermogen (state of being competitive) · es competitividad (state of being competitive) · uk конкурентоспромо́жність (state of being competitive) · pt competitividade (state of being competitive) · fr compétitivité (state of being competitive) · ru конкурентоспосо́бность (state of being competitive)