destructivityn.
/dɪstrʌkˈtɪvɪti/ Destructiveness.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > destructiveness
perniciousness1581
destructiveness1647
ruinousness1660
interdestructiveness1817
destructivity1902
destructivism1927
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 609/1 With the result that seismic destructivity can be accurately expressed in mechanical units.
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deˈstructivism n.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > destructiveness
perniciousness1581
destructiveness1647
ruinousness1660
interdestructiveness1817
destructivity1902
destructivism1927
1927 Times (Weekly ed.) 19 May 562/1 It [sc. Marxism] demolishes the foundation of an individualistic society. On the Continent this is now called destructivism.
1933 D. Thomas Let. July in Sel. Lett. (1966) 17 The..strangled destructivism of so much modern writing.
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