Destructiveness
[dɪs'trʌktɪvnɪs]
Definition
(n.) The quality of destroying or ruining.
(n.) The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy.
Editor: Noreen
Examples
- There was a new world, a new order, strict, terrible, inhuman, but satisfying in its very destructiveness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- All had a secret sense of power, and of inexpressible destructiveness, and of fatal half-heartedness, a sort of rottenness in the will. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Here was the secret of the terrible destructiveness of The Archer's tiny missiles. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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