reductiveness

English

Etymology

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.

Related terms

• reductionism
• reductivity
• reductively