defensiveness

noun

defensiveness

noun

UK /dɪˈfɛnsɪvnəs/

Etymology From defensive + -ness.

1

Usually The state or quality of being defensive.

The gay vs. straight confrontation has been dealt with before in movies and plays but never with the gay character in control and never so free of defensiveness or homosexual guilt.1976 February 7, Don Shewey, “Haunted Host (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 14:

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