COOPERATIVENESS Synonyms: 97 Similar and Opposite Words

cooperativeness

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Definition of cooperativeness

as in cooperation

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Noun

The judge also cited the defendant’s guilty plea, which avoided a lengthy trial, his cooperation with police, lack of a criminal record and his remorsefulness as factors in her decision.

— Menelaos Hadjicostis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
The project will be developed in cooperation with the Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association (TEEMA), which will help raise the necessary funding.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of cooperation

Noun

There’s a receptiveness to Helaena that at times can be really funny but also played up the tragedy of her arc this season.

— Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
The team also found that residents in the Sardinian Blue Zone had higher levels of curiosity and receptiveness to new ideas in general, and were more adept at understanding and sharing their emotions.

— Refractor, Refractor, 27 July 2026

Definition of receptiveness

Noun

The sheriff's office in an Oregon county where nine people were killed in a community college shooting 11 years ago is offering solidarity and support to the people of Bend.

— Phil Helsel, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026
The sectarian violence that followed the invasion appears to have convinced Iraqis of the importance of both national solidarity and separating religion from politics.

— Mansoor Moaddel, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of solidarity

Noun

On the home front, the success of a separatist party in Quebec is another threat to the unity that Carney is striving for.

— Callum Sutherland, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
The event as well as a luncheon the prior day in Santa Monica were rare displays of bipartisan unity at a time of heightened political polarization in the United States.

— Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of unity

Noun

Others worry about the toll on Yemenis, our poorer neighbors, who make up the kingdom’s largest foreign community and share ties of kinship and history with Saudis.

— Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Reczek and Bosley-Smith read the return partly as evidence of compulsory kinship’s durability, and the evidence supports them.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of kinship

Noun

Christian Science teaches about how our true oneness with God is our perfect, only identity.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2026
Western scholars also variously understand the concept of brahman in the Upanishads and Advaita Vedanta as a version of monism (the oneness of all things), pantheism (all is god), or panentheism (god is the whole universe and beyond).

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026

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