DESTRUCTIVENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)