reductiveness
English
Etymology
reductive + -ness
Noun
reductiveness (usually uncountable, plural reductivenesses)
- The quality of being reductive, of reducing things to their components
- 2009, January 18, “Charles Isherwood”, in Hedda Forever: An Antiheroine for the Ages:
- There is danger in trying too cleanly to diagram the roots of Hedda’s pathology. That way lies reductiveness.
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Related terms
- reductionism
- reductivity
- reductively