The quality or state of being approbative; a tendency to give approval.
From 'approbative' + '-ness,' a suffix that forms nouns indicating quality or state. Shows the trait of approving by nature.
Phrenologists in the 1800s actually believed 'approbativeness' was a measurable bump on the skull—the area where the brain's approval-seeking faculty lived!
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