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defensiveness
[ dih-fen-siv-nis ]
noun
- excessive concern with guarding against the real or imagined threat of criticism, injury to one’s ego, exposure of one’s shortcomings, etc.:
Employee defensiveness may be reduced by moving the focus of the conversation from the person to the behaviors.
- the condition of being abnormally sensitive to certain stimuli, leading to avoidance or overreaction:
Sensory defensiveness often takes the form of increased negative reactivity to noises from fans, clocks, car doors, etc.
- the state or condition of being prepared to defend against attack from an enemy:
A military adviser’s job involves improving a nation's army and overall defensiveness against foreign attackers.
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of defensiveness1
Example Sentences
Perhaps this was out of defensiveness once the freedom narrative took hold and people started noticing how small Flaco’s enclosure had been.
I worked very hard to shut up when someone wanted to express a resentment, instead of letting the childhood habits of defensiveness take over.
He notes — with maybe a touch of defensiveness — that the change in administration represented a natural experiment of sorts.
Democrats started the "President Musk" meme, and, predictably, Trump's narcissism has led to defensiveness.
MI5 showed "institutional defensiveness rather than candour" after the Manchester Arena attack and for years continued to present an "inaccurate picture" of what it had known about the suicide bomber, a tribunal has been told.
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