Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word NEGATIVISM

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Definitions of NEGATIVISM

1. A persistent pessimistic or skeptical attitude.
2. A stubborn tendency to do the opposite of what one is asked.

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Examples of Using NEGATIVISM in a Sentence

• After Nixon's 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and for Spiro Agnew; he is known for having created Agnew's famous alliterative term, "nattering nabobs of negativism".
• The Czechoslovakian DNSAP led by Hans Knirsch together with the conservative German National Party (Deutsche Nationalpartei, DNP) became the main proponent of so-called "negativism", the general tendency among the Sudeten Germans not to accept the legitimacy of the Czechoslovakian state.
• He argued that its style and the "dreary negativism" it promoted were inconsistent with Shakespeare's "essentially positivist" soul, and so could not have been written by Oxford.
• In social science, antipositivism (also interpretivism, negativism or antinaturalism) is a theoretical stance which proposes that the social realm cannot be studied with the methods of investigation utilized within the natural sciences, and that investigation of the social realm requires a different epistemology.
• Patient's movements often become restricted, becoming catatonic for a short period: stereotypies – body-rocking, head banging, mutism, negativism (failure to cooperate or the active subversion of demands made of the patient), waxy flexibility, impulsive actions.
• Reasons behind the suppression of Nam Tiến after 1975 were not because its racist negativism and ethnonationalism, but its contradiction of the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) agenda.
• Agnew denounces the President's critics as "an effete corps of impudent snobs" and "nattering nabobs of negativism".
• Agnew, increasingly identified with his attacks on critics of the Nixon administration, described these opponents as "nattering nabobs of negativism".
• Detractors accused the natural-school authors of negativism, tendentiousness, plagiarizing French authors and lack of patriotism.
• Catatonia is defined as the presence of at least three of the following twelve traits: catalepsy, waxy flexibility, posturing, grimacing, mutism, negativism, stupor, mannerism, stereotypy, echolalia, echopraxia, and agitation.
• Catatonic symptoms involve a variety of motor abnormalities and behavioral disturbances, such as stupor, immobility, mutism, negativism, posturing, rigidity, and repetitive or purposeless movements.

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