What does destructiveness mean?

Definitions for destructiveness
de·struc·tive·ness

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. destructivenessnoun

    the quality of causing destruction

Wiktionary

  1. destructivenessnoun

    The state or quality of being destructive.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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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  1. 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

  1. Destructivenessnoun

    the quality of destroying or ruining

  2. Destructivenessnoun

    the faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy

Wikidata

  1. Destructiveness

    Destructiveness is a faculty from the discipline of phrenology.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of destructiveness in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of destructiveness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of destructiveness in a Sentence

  1. Wilhelm Reich:

    Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

  2. Leo C. Rosten:

    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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