destructiveness
nounEtymology From destructive + -ness.
1
The state or quality of being destructive.
- Would Helen’s face-seductiveness have wrought as much destructiveness, Would Antony have followed Cleopatra like a lamb, Unless those ladies’ vanities for snaring male humanities Had been associated with a quantum suff. of glam.?1939 July 19, The Bulletin, Sydney, page 14, column 1:
- Derived terms
- nondestructiveness, self-destructiveness