abortiveness
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abortiveness (usually uncountable; plural abortivenesses)
- (uncountable) The quality of being abortive. [First attested in the early 17th century.][1]
- (countable) The result or product of being abortive.
References [edit]
- ^ 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 7: