reductiveness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]reductiveness (usually uncountable, plural reductivenesses)
- The quality of being reductive, of reducing things to their components
- 2009 January 18, Charles Isherwood, “Hedda Forever: An Antiheroine for the Ages”, in New York Times[1]:
- There is danger in trying too cleanly to diagram the roots of Hedda’s pathology. That way lies reductiveness.