Meanings
- uncountableThe state of being competitive.
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.
1973 June 2, Iver Peterson, “Campus Notes Grant Made for Study‐Incentive Plan”, in The New York TimesSynonyms: competitivity
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state of being competitive.
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Translations
Catalan competitivitat
- competitivitatstate of being competitive
Czech soutěživost
- soutěživoststate of being competitive
Dutch concurrentievermogen
- concurrentievermogenstate of being competitive
Finnish kilpailukyky
- kilpailukykystate of being competitive
French compétitivité
- compétitivitéstate of being competitive
German Wettbewerbsfähigkeit
- Wettbewerbsfähigkeitstate of being competitive
Hungarian versenyképesség
- versenyképességstate of being competitive
Italian competitività
- competitivitàstate of being competitive
Portuguese competitividade
- competitividadestate of being competitive
Romanian competitivitate
- competitivitatestate of being competitive
Russian конкурентоспосо́бность, сопе́рничество
- конкурентоспосо́бность (konkurentosposóbnostʹ)state of being competitive
- сопе́рничество (sopérničestvo)state of being competitive
Spanish competitividad
- competitividadstate of being competitive
Ukrainian конкурентоспромо́жність
- конкурентоспромо́жність (konkurentospromóžnistʹ)state of being competitive
Cite this entry
competitiveness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/competitiveness
“competitiveness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/competitiveness. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “competitiveness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/competitiveness.
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