Characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands. Synonyms:negativeness, negativism.Antonyms:positiveness, positivity.
... above what was to me the chilling negativeness of all this, its indifference to the human welfare of all other mortals, there was in Sylvia's religion something else, which I find myself unable, even now, to put into words. Some indication of it, perhaps, is given by the little passage I have quoted from one ... — The Message • Alec John Dawson