Negativity is a habit of seeing the bad side of everything. Constant negativity, avoid the negativity, negativity bias.
Negativity bias is the measured tendency to weigh bad news more heavily than good, which is probably useful for survival and exhausting in a news feed. As a complaint about a person it is often used to dismiss criticism that happens to be correct. Note negative, from the Latin for denying.
1nounnegativityA habit of seeing the bad side of everything.
“His constant negativity dragged the whole team down, because every idea was bad in his eyes.”
negativity is a disposition.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₁eǵ-
Latin
negātīvus — that denies, negative
Old French
negatif
Middle English
negative
English
negative
English, today
negativity
Built from
From negative + -ity. negative comes from Middle English negative, negatif, from Old French negatif, from Latin negātīvus (“that denies, negative”), from negāre (“to deny”); see negate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA