Anagrams of: DEFENSIVENESSES

• excessive sensitivity to criticism

• intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack

• an attitude of defensiveness

• attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing

• intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack

• an attitude of defensiveness

• attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing

• the parity of even numbers (divisible by two)

• a quality of uniformity and lack of variation

• the quality of being balanced

• the quality of being very good indeed

• the property of being very narrow or thin

• having a very fine texture

• the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance

• To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or strategem.

• To play (a card) as a finesse.

• To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way.

• To attempt to win a trick by finessing.

• To play a ball out of the way of an opponent.

• (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies

• the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947

• protection from harm

• (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring

• the justification for some act or belief

• (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

• the defendant and his legal advisors collectively

• the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions

• an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack

• a structure used to defend against attack

• a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him

• the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury

• someone to whom property (especially realty) is devised by will

• the quality of being mentally slow and limited

• the spatial property of being crowded together

• the amount per unit size