Competitiveness vs. Competition

The state of being competitive.

an agressive willingness to compete.

an aggressive willingness to compete;

Example: ‘the team was full of fight’;

(uncountable) The action of competing.

Example: ‘The competition for this job is strong.’;

(countable) A contest for a prize or award.

Example: ‘The newspaper is featuring a competition to win a car.’;

The competitors in such a contest.

Example: ‘The new stain remover was ten times more effective than the competition.’;

The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; - followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.

Example: ‘Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be.’; ‘A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competition.’; ‘There is no competition but for the second place.’; ‘Where competition does not act at all there is complete monopoly.’;

a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers;

Example: ‘business competition can be fiendish at times’;

an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants

the act of competing as for profit or a prize;

Example: ‘the teams were in fierce contention for first place’;

the contestant you hope to defeat;

Example: ‘he had respect for his rivals’; ‘he wanted to know what the competition was doing’;

Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, individuals, economic and social groups, etc.