DESTRUCTIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does destructiveness mean? 

• DESTRUCTIVENESS (noun)
  The noun DESTRUCTIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of causing destruction

  Familiarity information: DESTRUCTIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESTRUCTIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of causing destruction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("destructiveness" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "destructiveness"):

harmfulness; injuriousness (destructiveness that causes harm or injury)

poison (anything that harms or destroys)

Antonym:

constructiveness (the quality of serving to build or improve)

Derivation:

destructive (causing destruction or much damage)