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Dismissiveness

What is the noun for dismissive?
dismissiveness?
dismissivity?
dismission?
dismittletude?
He was dismissive. He treated the problem with dismissividity.
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[nq:1]What is the noun for dismissive? dismissiveness? dismissivity?

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  • [nq:1]What is the noun for dismissive?
  • dismissiveness?
  • dismissivity?
  • dismission?
  • dismittletude?
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[nq:1]What is the noun for dismissive? dismissiveness? dismissivity? dismission? dismittletude? He was dismissive. He treated the problem with dismissividity.[/nq]
"Disdain".. But without checking any references at all, I'd guess that "dismissiveness" would win in a general survey.

Cheers, Harvey
CanEng and BrEng, indiscriminately mixed
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[nq:1]On 08 Jan 2010, mm wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]What is the noun for dismissive? dismissiveness? dismissivity? dismission? dismittletude? He was dismissive. He treated the problem with dismissividity.[/nq]
[nq:1]"Disdain"..[/nq]
Not the same meaning.
[nq:1]But without checking any references at all, I'd guess that "dismissiveness" would win in a general survey.[/nq]
My first choice t
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