destructiveness

English

Etymology

From destructive +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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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.?

Derived terms

• nondestructiveness
• self-destructiveness

Translations

the state or quality of being destructive

• French: destructivité (fr) f
• Irish: loitiméireacht f

  Old Irish: bráthamlacht f

• Italian: distruttività f
• Manx: traartaght f
• Portuguese: destrutividade f
• Spanish: destructividad f