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reductiveness

reductiveness noun: the quality of being reductive, of reducing things to their components.

Noun

reductiveness (usually uncountable, plural reductivenesses)

  1. (usually) The quality of being reductive, of reducing things to their components
    • There is danger in trying too cleanly to diagram the roots of Hedda’s pathology. That way lies reductiveness.2009 January 18, Charles Isherwood, “Hedda Forever: An Antiheroine for the Ages”, in New York Times

Forms of reductiveness

pluralreductivenesses

Origin of reductiveness

From reductive + -ness.

Questions about reductiveness

What does reductiveness mean?
Reductiveness means the quality of being reductive, of reducing things to their components.
What part of speech is reductiveness?
Reductiveness is a noun.
What is the plural of reductiveness?
The plural of reductiveness is reductivenesses.

Words near reductiveness in the dictionary

  1. reductios ad absurdum
  2. reductisol
  3. reductisols
  4. reductive
  5. reductively
  6. reductiveness
  7. reductivenesses
  8. reductives
  9. reductivism
  10. reductivisms
  11. reductivist

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