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defensiveness
 
Noun defensiveness has 1 sense
  1. defensiveness - excessive sensitivity to criticism; "his defensiveness was manifested in hurt silence"; "the fear of being sued for malpractice has magnified physicians' defensiveness"
    --1 is a kind of     sensitivity, sensitiveness
    --1 has particulars: bunker mentality
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