argumentativeness

Argumentativeness, on the other hand, is when an individual argues about controversial issues.

"So your love for me is most unnatural, at least by Ghoulish standards," he said with a touch of argumentativeness.

The former is secular argumentativeness; the latter is closer to religious elegy.

When at last she spoke, to Magda's relief, there was not a trace of argumentativeness in her voice.

People with paranoid-type schizophrenia can exhibit anger, aloofness, anxiety, and argumentativeness.

Unhesitatingly she got to her feet without any sign of her usual argumentativeness, which had to mean she was very thirsty.

Microsoft's argumentativeness has disastrously overshadowed its arguments.

Happily married couples were more likely to resolve disputes without the use of verbally aggressive messages, using instead argumentativeness to negotiate an agreement.

Productive argumentativeness can produce positive outcomes in communication through challenging and defending standpoints through justification.

"I'm familiar with Tellarite argumentativeness."

There may be delusional jealousy, extreme intensity in interpersonal interactions, argumentativeness, and in some instances violence."

Her and her argumentativeness.'

'Argumentativeness and arrogance.

And like John McEnroe, whose argumentativeness on the tennis court became his trademark, Hernandez has been a spectacular success.

The attitude of a Christian wife should be an attitude of submissiveness, as opposed to argumentativeness, or demand, or attempt at conflict."

The constructive traits which produce satisfaction and increase relationship contentment by helping to increase understandings between the different positions are assertiveness and argumentativeness.

Unlike argumentativeness, verbal aggressiveness is focused on defending one's identity and attacking others; they do not try to resolve the dispute but instead attack individuals self-concept.

The veiled reference to their private conversation earlier would have been enough on its own to goad Corrigan into dissenting, even without his innate Irish argumentativeness.

'Hope there's enough,' blared Delie Stock, with something of defiance and preparatory argumentativeness creeping into her voice, for she did not like the priest's silence.

CBS News found a television use for this argumentativeness when it adapted the Spectrum format as a two-person segment, in its 60 Minutes news program.

Kassing and Avtgis (1999) demonstrated that an individual's verbal aggressiveness and argumentativeness influence the manner in which an individual will approach expressing dissent.

If they had shown this sort of backbone earlier, he reflected, they might not be in this situation now; as it was, their argumentativeness was little more than petulance.

Mr. Berg reported problems in Mrs. Lindbergh's marriage that were painful for her, among them her husband's frequent absences, his bossiness, argumentativeness and emotional remoteness.

It is this mixture of compliance and argumentativeness which not only bores and irritates Belville but actually drives him back to his old pursuits - drinking and lechery.

Infante and Rancer (1982) define argumentativeness as the "trait-like behavior that predisposes an individual to take a stand on controversial issues and attack the positions that other people take".