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Definitions for destructiveness
de·struc·tive·ness
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Princeton's WordNet
destructivenessnoun
the quality of causing destruction
Wiktionary
destructivenessnoun
The state or quality of being destructive.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Destructivenessnoun
The quality of destroying or ruining.
Etymology: from destructive.
The vice of professors exceeds the destructiveness of the most hostile assaults, as intestine treachery is more ruinous than foreign violence. Decay of Piety.
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destructiveness
Destructiveness refers to causing significant damage, harm or destruction to a person, object, environment, or system. It can involve physical harm, such as damage to property, or non-physical harm, such as emotional pain or ruin to an individual's reputation. Destructiveness can also include actions that disrupt or harm society or its norms, such as crime or anti-social behavior.
Webster Dictionary
Destructivenessnoun
the quality of destroying or ruining
Destructivenessnoun
the faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy
Wikidata
Destructiveness
Destructiveness is a faculty from the discipline of phrenology.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of destructiveness in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of destructiveness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of destructiveness in a Sentence
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
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