reductiveness
nounEtymology From reductive + -ness.
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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:
- Related terms
- reductionism, reductivity, reductively