reductiveness

English

Etymology

From reductive +‎ -ness.

Noun

reductiveness (usually uncountable, plural reductivenesses)

  1. The quality of being reductive, of reducing things to their components
    • 2009 January 18, Charles Isherwood, “Hedda Forever: An Antiheroine for the Ages”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      There is danger in trying too cleanly to diagram the roots of Hedda’s pathology. That way lies reductiveness.
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