competitiveness

English

Etymology

From competitive +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɛtɪtɪvnəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: com‧pet‧i‧tive‧ness

Noun

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:

     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

• competitivity

Derived terms

• noncompetitiveness

Translations

state of being competitive

Catalan: competitivitat (ca) f Czech: soutěživost f Dutch: concurrentievermogen (nl) n Finnish: kilpailukyky (fi) French: compétitivité (fr) f Galician: competitividade f German: Wettbewerbsfähigkeit (de) f Hungarian: versenyképesség (hu) Italian: competitività (it) f Portuguese: competitividade (pt) f Romanian: competitivitate (ro) f Russian: конкурентоспосо́бность (ru) f (konkurentosposóbnostʹ), сопе́рничество (ru) n (sopérničestvo) Spanish: competitividad f Ukrainian: конкурентоспромо́жність f (konkurentospromóžnistʹ)