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DEFENSIVE ATTITUDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An attitude of defensiveness (especially in the phrase 'on the defensive')
Synonyms:
defensive; defensive attitude
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("defensive attitude" is a kind of...):
attitude; mental attitude (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways)