Belief in or assertion of dogma; dogmatic character; (more generally) positiveness in the assertion of opinion, now esp. the tendency to lay down…

The quality of being pragmatical; esp. the officiousness, meddlesomeness; opinionatedness, dogmatism. Formerly also: †activity, assiduity (obsolete).

The state or quality of positive, adj. (in various senses); positivity.

= magisterialness, n.

The quality or condition of being magisterial.

The quality or fact of being dogmatical; positiveness.

dogmaticalness.

Confident certainty; esp. arrogant overconfidence; = cocksureness, n.

The principles or tenets of one who holds extreme opinions on any question; the fact of holding such opinions.

The action of pontificate, v.; esp. the action of expressing one's opinion in a dogmatic or pompous manner.

The principles or practice of a doctrinaire; pedantic adhesion to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations; doctrinarianism.

Positiveness; absence of relativism, ambiguity, equivocation, changeableness, etc.

dogmatic quality.

quality of a doctrinaire.

Adherence to, or setting forth of, doctrine.

doctrinairism.

Confident certainty; esp. arrogant overconfidence.

arrogant self-confidence; = cocksureness, n.