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proscriptiveness

proscriptiveness noun: the quality of being proscriptive.

Noun

proscriptiveness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being proscriptive.

Origin of proscriptiveness

From proscriptive + -ness.

Questions about proscriptiveness

What does proscriptiveness mean?
Proscriptiveness means the quality of being proscriptive.
What part of speech is proscriptiveness?
Proscriptiveness is a noun.

Words near proscriptiveness in the dictionary

  1. proscriptionist
  2. proscriptionists
  3. proscriptions
  4. proscriptive
  5. proscriptively
  6. proscriptiveness
  7. proscriptivism
  8. proscriptivist
  9. proscriptivists
  10. proscripts
  11. proscuitto

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