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ekspanzivnost

English translation: expansiveness

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Serbo-Croat term or phrase:ekspanzivnost
English translation:expansiveness
Entered by: Bogdan Petrovic

18:29 Aug 18, 2008
Serbo-Croat to English translations [PRO]
Psychology
Serbo-Croat term or phrase: ekspanzivnost
Kritičan je prema ljudima i idejama, odlučno će braniti svoje stanovište ako to bude potrebno.
Poseduje ekspanzivnost i želju da izrazi svoje potencijale i ostvari svoje težnje.

Nisam siguran da postoji takva sh reč!? Možda "širinu"?
Bogdan Petrovic
Serbia
Local time: 07:43
expansiveness
Explanation:
"2. Absence of reserve in feeling or speech; genial frankness, freedom, openness; unrestrained flow of sympathy or conversation."
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Dragan Novakovic
Local time: 07:43
Grading comment
Hvala!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4expansiveness
Dragan Novakovic
5 -2aggressiveness/initiative
Speakering (X)


Discussion entries: 5





  

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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
expansiveness


Explanation:
"2. Absence of reserve in feeling or speech; genial frankness, freedom, openness; unrestrained flow of sympathy or conversation."

Dragan Novakovic
Local time: 07:43
Native speaker of: Native in SerbianSerbian
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Hvala!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mira Stepanovic: http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/npa.html "The important attributes of this type are: expansiveness but unaggressiveness, non-perfectionism, ..."
9 mins
  -> Hvala!
agree  Larisa Djuvelek-Ruggiero (X)
19 hrs
  -> Hvala!
agree  Vesna Likar: Odlicno, Dragane! Jel' mi mozete reci odakle Vam je definicija? Cisto me zanima. Hvala!
1 day 14 hrs
  -> Hvala! Definicija je iz Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition (OED2 on CD-ROM, OUP1992).
agree  Natasa Djurovic
2 days 17 hrs
  -> Hvala!
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -2
aggressiveness/initiative


Explanation:
in usa, aggressive personality is used in a positive connotation, the character explained above fits this description. other option is initiative, initiates, that fits within the context and it is less culturally limited to the usa. i have not seem ekspanzivnost used in this context before, it must be a new terminology used to describe the two options i have given you.

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Note added at 1 day10 hrs (2008-08-20 04:37:51 GMT)
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sorry mira, but obviously you have never lived in the usa so cannot really know the use of aggressive in everyday language as a positive characteristics.

Speakering (X)
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Native speaker of: Native in MacedonianMacedonian, Native in Serbo-CroatSerbo-Croat

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Mira Stepanovic: Sry, agressive personality is not used in a positive conotation in USA or anywhere else http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggression In psychology and other social and behavioral sciences, aggression refers to behavior that is intended to cause harm.
14 hrs
disagree  Veronica Prpic Uhing: Behavior Therapy Term: Aggressiveness is a mode of communication and behavior where one expresses their feelings, needs and rights without regard or respect for the needs, rights and feelings of others.
1 day 9 hrs
disagree  Dubravka Hrastovec: Ako se ne koristi u smislu 'assertiveness', 'aggressiveness' nije drugo nego poremećaj u karakteru. U SAD-u ili bilo gdje drugdje.
4 days
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