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reductiveness

noun

Etymology

From reductive + -ness.

  1. derived from reducere — “to reduce”
  2. derived from reductivus
  3. derived from réductif
  4. suffixed as reductiveness — “reductive + ness”

Definitions

  1. The 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for reductiveness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA