Jump to content

competitiveness

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]
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.

    Pronunciation

    [edit]
    • IPA(key): /kəmˈpɛtɪtɪvnəs/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
    • Hyphenation: com‧pet‧i‧tive‧ness

    Noun

    [edit]

    competitiveness (uncountable)

    1. The state of being competitive.
      • 1973 June 2, Iver Peterson, “Campus Notes Grant Made for Study‐Incentive Plan”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
        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.

    Synonyms

    [edit]

    Derived terms

    [edit]

    Translations

    [edit]
    Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=competitiveness&oldid=90609957"