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assertiveness
noun as in decidedness
noun as in decisiveness
Weak matches
noun as in forcefulness
noun as in obstinateness
Weak matches
- disorderliness
- fractiousness
- heedlessness
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- indocility
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- obstinacy
- obstreperousness
- orneriness
- perverseness
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- waywardness
- wildness
- willfulness
noun as in obstreperousness
Strong matches
noun as in recalcitrance
Strong matches
noun as in recalcitrancy
Strong matches
noun as in refractoriness
Strong matches
noun as in uncontrollability
Weak matches
- disorderliness
- fractiousness
- heedlessness
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- indocility
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- orneriness
- perverseness
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- waywardness
- wildness
- willfulness
noun as in uncontrollableness
Weak matches
- disorderliness
- fractiousness
- heedlessness
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- indocility
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- orneriness
- perverseness
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- uncontrollability
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- waywardness
- wildness
- willfulness
noun as in ungovernableness
Weak matches
- disorderliness
- fractiousness
- heedlessness
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- indocility
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- orneriness
- perverseness
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- unmanageability
- untowardness
- waywardness
- wildness
- willfulness
noun as in unmanageability
Weak matches
- disorderliness
- fractiousness
- heedlessness
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- indocility
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- orneriness
- perverseness
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- untowardness
- waywardness
- wildness
- willfulness
noun as in untowardness
Weak matches
- disorderliness
- fractiousness
- heedlessness
- impetuousness
- imprudence
- impulsiveness
- indocility
- intemperanc
- intractability
- intractableness
- lawlessness
- obstinacy
- obstinateness
- obstreperousness
- orneriness
- perverseness
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- recalcitrancy
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- uncontrollability
- uncontrollableness
- ungovernableness
- unmanageability
- waywardness
- wildness
- willfulness
Example Sentences
When she tries to join a conversation between two men at dinner she is chastened for her assertiveness.
The assertiveness China already shows in Asia and Africa is just the beginning.
I absolutely love the assertiveness of olives and capers, especially when paired with a meaty fish like swordfish.
His assertiveness was compelling, and even the captain displayed symptoms of being impressed.
Those qualities were greed and persistence in acquisitiveness, cunning and subtlety, also bragging and self-assertiveness.
He had a peculiar manner of wriggling from the bottom of his back, with fussy self-assertiveness.
His self-assertiveness irritated those who were accustomed to look for nothing but deference from the persons about them.
But his vanity was that of an honest man, and he was often stung to assertiveness by the malignities of his enemies.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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