competitiveness

From competitive + -ness.

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɛtɪtɪvnəs/

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• Hyphenation: com‧pet‧i‧tive‧ness

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^[1]:

     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.

• competitivity