Reductiveness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being reductive, of reducing things to their components uncountable, usually

    "There is danger in trying too cleanly to diagram the roots of Hedda’s pathology. That way lies reductiveness."

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"There is danger in trying too cleanly to diagram the roots of Hedda’s pathology. That way lies reductiveness."

Etymology

From reductive + -ness.

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