destructiveness

English

Etymology

From destructive +‎ -ness.

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Noun

destructiveness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being destructive.
    • 1939 July 19, The Bulletin, Sydney, page 14, column 1:
      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.?

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