From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishnegativityneg‧a‧tiv‧i‧ty /ˌneɡəˈtɪvəti/ noun [uncountable] an attitude in which someone considers only the bad qualities of a situation, person etc, not the good ones
Examples from the Corpus
negativity• The principle may also be instrumental in the transmission of disease to vulnerable receivers along with aggression, negativity, etc.• In the final analysis, negativity or positivity within any given cultural form only exists within the positioning of the piece.• Timmy says much the same thing but with less diplomacy, writing that harsh criticism and negativity are pulling the team apart.• So what does that have to do with being stuck in career negativity?• This is precisely how negativity works.• You provide the food that negativity needs to exist, for without your fear, it can not exist.• The strain, the negativity, the isolation all came with the territory.• One manager said that for self-protection she became immune to the negativity. 