Destructiveness

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Destructiveness \De*struc"tive*ness\, n.
     1. The quality of destroying or ruining. --Prynne.
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     2. (Phren.) The faculty supposed to impel to the commission
        of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  destructiveness
       n : the quality of causing destruction [ant: {constructiveness}]