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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

Competitività

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kom.pe.ti.ti.vi.tà

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Competitiveness/kəmˈpet.ɪ.tɪv.nəs/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La competitività dell'azienda è aumentata grazie a nuove strategie."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The quality of being competitive; the ability to compete effectively.

    "The company's competitiveness in the market has increased due to innovative strategies."
  2. 2

    A state or condition of striving to gain or win something by defeating others.

    "Her competitiveness in sports drives her to train harder than her peers."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the adjective competitive, ultimately originating from the Latin 'competere' meaning 'to strive in common' or 'to meet together, vie with'. The suffix '-ness' is of Germanic origin, added to adjectives to form abstract nouns denoting state or quality, evolving in the modern era to describe economic, athletic, and psychological drives.

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