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Meaning of "destructivity" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DESTRUCTIVITY

ˌdiːstrʌkˈtɪvɪtɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DESTRUCTIVITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Destructivity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DESTRUCTIVITY

activity · captivity · conductivity · connectivity · creativity · hyperactivity · inactivity · interactivity · nativity · negativity · positivity · productivity · radioactivity · reactivity · reflectivity · relativity · resistivity · selectivity · sensitivity · superconductivity

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DESTRUCTIVITY

destroyable · destroyer · destroyer escort · destroying angel · destruct · destruct button · destruct mechanism · destructibility · destructible · destruction · destructional · destructionist · destructive · destructive distillation · destructively · destructiveness · destructivism · destructivist · destructo · destructor

WORDS THAT END LIKE DESTRUCTIVITY

absorptivity · adaptivity · additivity · associativity · cooperativity · diffusivity · electronegativity · exclusivity · expressivity · extravehicular activity · gravity · hypersensitivity · inclusivity · motivity · objectivity · physical activity · special theory of relativity · subjectivity · thermal conductivity · transitivity · transmissivity

Synonyms and antonyms of destructivity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «destructivity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DESTRUCTIVITY

Find out the translation of destructivity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of destructivity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «destructivity» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

破坏力
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

destructividad
570 millions of speakers
en

English

destructivity
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

destructivity
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

destructivity
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

деструктивность
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

destrutividade
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

destructivity
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

destructivité
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Pemusnahan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Destruktivität
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

破壊性
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

destructivity
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Destructivity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

destructivity
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

destructivity
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

विध्वंस
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

yıkıcılıkları
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

distruttività
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

destructivity
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

деструктивність
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

destructivity
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καταστροφικότητας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Destructivity
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

destruktivitet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

destruktivitet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of destructivity

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DESTRUCTIVITY»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of destructivity
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about destructivity

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESTRUCTIVITY»

Discover the use of destructivity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to destructivity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Systematics and the Economics of Culture
Ultimate Creativity/Destructivity exists by itself, and is self-mastering and self- illuminating. The existence of Ultimate Creativity- Destructivity can not be proved except by intuitive sense and reasoning. Principle of creativity is implied by the ...
Victor Lux Tonn, 2009
2
Key Ideas for a Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Misrecognition ...
When one is dealing with destructivity turned towards the object, it is commonly confused with sadism.And it is not easy to dissociate them. It seems to me that unlike sadism, destructivity does not imply the unconscious jouissance of the ...
Andre Green, 2012
3
Updating Midlife: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Acknowledgement of hate and destructivity (Homo homini lupus) Jaques (1965) was the first to mention that midlife crisis not only implied accepting one's own future death but also hate and destructivity towards oneself and objects. Beyond  ...
Guillermo Julio Montero, Alicia Mirta Ciancio de Montero, Liliana Singman de Vogelfanger, 2013
4
Zerotropism and Panaceanism
Creativity. and. Destructivity. Creativity occurs when the relevant conflicting issues between entropy and antientropy get resolved in favor of antientropy, while destructivity occurs when the relevant conflicting issues between entropy and ...
Keith Ferreira, 2008
5
Exploring the Work of Donald Meltzer: A Festschrift
CHAPTER NINE Love and destructivity: from the aesthetic Conflict to a revision of the Concept of destructivity in the psyche lean Bégoin Conflict" when he presented this new concept in Paris, at a I first heard Donald Meltzer speak about the ...
Donald Meltzer, Margaret Cohen, Alberto Hahn, 2000
6
The Zen Impulse and the Psychoanalytic Encounter
Challenge: Creativity/Destructivity. Creativity and destructivity can only be separated arbitrarily. Every creative movement requires thedestruction ofsomethingelse;otherwise, what might be deemed as creativebecomes ...
Paul C. Cooper, 2011
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Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialization: New ...
... concerning groups and transitional phenomena. Once more, because Winnicott does not speak of racism, I will track the genesis of aggression, destructivity and hate in his schema, and take racism to be specific racialized versions of these.
Farhad Dalal, 2013
8
Microelectronic Materials and Processes
Destructivity Destructivity is an important feature of any analytical method. In the strictest sense, we define as destructive any permanent change induced in the state of a system (sample). In this sense any observation (analysis) based on the  ...
R. A. Levy, 1989
9
The Perverse Organisation and Its Deadly Sins
the imperative being: growth through self-knowledge.3 Whatever the origins of the idea of expressive individualism and a healthy narcissism, it is its perversion into a self-serving use and abuse of others that leads to social destructivity.
Susan Long, 2008
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Cape Town 2007: Journeys, Encounters - Clinical, Communal, ...
The child also experiences destructivity in the day to day relational interactions: for instance when the frustration, the anticipation and finally the inadequacy of the parental answer to the requests of the child damage the link, when he ...
Pramila Bennett, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DESTRUCTIVITY»

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Michael Christie's debut novel picks out marginalised lives in Ontario
... outside world, what his mother feared begins: a series of what he terms destructivity experiments. What initially seems to be her agoraphobia, ... «The Australian, Jun 15»
2
Implications of NK's SLBM test
To develop a superior delivery system, rather than a warhead with superior destructivity, is strategically more valuable. The reason is that even ... «Daily NK, Jun 15»
3
Campus Notes
These Racine students exhibited their work: Emily Brownell presented “The Cult of Destructivity: Mothers and Daughters in George Eliot's 'The ... «Journal Times, May 15»
4
March 2015 (Volume 66, Number 10)
Without doubt man has built a pyramid of potential destructivity…. Man is a destroyer as well as a builder. He has exterminated entire species… «Monthly Review, Mar 15»
5
Ethnic cleansing and war crimes, 1991-1995 – part 3
By the same token, Jacques Semelin argues that Genocide comes within the same destructivity continuum as ethnic cleansing but is essentially ... «TransConflict, Jun 14»
6
Neoliberalism and the Subjugation of Latin America
The ensuing consequences for Latin America, its sovereignty and its economic freedoms were unparalleled in their destructivity; there was to ... «Dissident Voice, Jun 14»
7
Billy Vunipola loaded and ready to fire Saracens to Heineken Cup …
Vunipola has few worries on that score. At 21, his rare mix of destructivity and dextrousness has him pencilled in at the back of England's scrum ... «Express.co.uk, May 14»
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WWE: Why Turning Ryback Heel Right Now Would Be a Mistake
If you saw his path of destruction during his time with the Nexus, you know that he was capable of much more destructivity than some gave him ... «Bleacher Report, Feb 13»
9
The Power of Choices
It's creativity and destructivity, and upkeep, choices we make not with a goal of forward movement through a linear story, rather choices Wright ... «Gamasutra, Oct 12»
10
A Truth For A Truth On An Eye For An Eye
This eventually causes a revenge spiral allowing destructivity to reign freely. I read a similar theory in a NY Times article by Harvard professor ... «VICE, Sep 11»
REFERENCE
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