reductiveness

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noun

The quality of being reductive, of reducing things to their components

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Meanings

nounreductiveness (usually uncountable, plural reductivenesses)

plural reductivenesses

  1. uncountableusuallyThe 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

Origin

From reductive + -ness.

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APA

reductiveness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reductiveness

MLA

“reductiveness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reductiveness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reductiveness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reductiveness.

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