competitiveness
noun/kəmˈpɛtɪtɪvnəs/
Etymology From competitive + -ness.
1
The 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 Times:
- Synonyms
- competitivity
- Derived terms
- noncompetitiveness