defensiveness in English

noun

quality of being on guard, protectiveness, watchfulness

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1. 14 Second, in the defensiveness about modernity a gender correlation is not uncommon.

2. Generally, the Crouched position is one of defensiveness, self protection or fear

3. 2 Even now, the force is hampered by DoH dogma and defensiveness.

4. 20 I had expected defensiveness and brittle idealism, but I was wrong.

5. The non-Apologizer walks on a tightrope of defensiveness above a huge canyon of low self-esteem

6. Because Criticism is the first horseman, fighting off your urge to criticize can hold the other horsemen (defensiveness, contempt, and stonewalling) at bay

7. 1995, Leonard Shengold, Delusions of Everyday Life (page 39) He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a Classifier and labeler.