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PRONUNCIATION OF REDUCTIVENESS

reductiveness  [rɪˈdʌktɪvnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REDUCTIVENESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Reductiveness 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.

WHAT DOES REDUCTIVENESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of reductiveness in the English dictionary

The definition of reductiveness in the dictionary is the state or quality of being reductive.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH REDUCTIVENESS


activeness
ˈæktɪvnəs
collectiveness
kəˈlɛktɪvnəs
conjunctiveness
kənˈdʒʌŋktɪvnəs
constructiveness
kənˈstrʌktɪvnəs
contradictiveness
ˌkɒntrəˈdɪktɪvnəs
defectiveness
dɪˈfektɪvnəs
diffractiveness
dɪˈfræktɪvnəs
inactiveness
ɪnˈæktɪvnəs
indistinctiveness
ˌɪndɪˈstɪŋktɪvnəs
inductiveness
ɪnˈdʌktɪvnəs
invectiveness
ɪnˈvektɪvnəs
nonproductiveness
ˌnɒnprəˈdʌktɪvnəs
objectiveness
əbˈdʒɛktɪvnəs
perfectiveness
pəˈfɛktɪvnəs
productiveness
prəˈdʌktɪvnəs
reproductiveness
ˌriːprəˈdʌktɪvnəs
restrictiveness
rɪˈstrɪktɪvnəs
selectiveness
sɪˈlɛktɪvnəs
subjectiveness
səbˈdʒɛktɪvnəs
unproductiveness
ˌʌnprəˈdʌktɪvnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REDUCTIVENESS

reducer
reducibility
reducible
reducibleness
reducibly
reducing agent
reducing glass
reductant
reductase
reductio ad absurdum
reduction
reduction division
reduction formula
reductional
reductionism
reductionist
reductionistic
reductive
reductively
reductor

WORDS THAT END LIKE REDUCTIVENESS

adhesiveness
appropriateness
attentiveness
attractiveness
awareness
awesomeness
brand awareness
business
closeness
competitiveness
completeness
cost-effectiveness
cuteness
effectiveness
hoarseness
likeness
oneness
responsiveness
self-awareness
soreness
uniqueness

Synonyms and antonyms of reductiveness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «reductiveness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF REDUCTIVENESS

Find out the translation of reductiveness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of reductiveness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «reductiveness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

reductiveness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

reduccionismo
570 millions of speakers

English

reductiveness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

reductiveness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

reductiveness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

reductiveness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

reductiveness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

reductiveness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

reductiveness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kemerosotan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Reduziert
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

reductiveness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

reductiveness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Reductiveness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

reductiveness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

reductiveness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कमीपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

reductiveness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

riduzionismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

reductiveness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

reductiveness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

reductiveness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

reductiveness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

reductiveness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

reductiveness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

reductiveness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of reductiveness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REDUCTIVENESS»

The term «reductiveness» is barely ever used and occupies the 196.173 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «REDUCTIVENESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about reductiveness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REDUCTIVENESS»

Discover the use of reductiveness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to reductiveness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy
In other words, does the effort to relate disparate parts of the social fabric to each other - especially and crucially for Marxism, the 'economic' with the 'cultural' - entail reductiveness and require that the formally specific productions and ...
Simon Glendinning, 1999
2
The Problem of Memory in Modernism: Gestures of Memory in ...
For while Duchamp's work might be compared to the disruptively energetic humour that went into the making of Harmonium—and particularly to the sardonic reductiveness of attitude detectable behind its paradoxically ornate language— the ...
Robert J. Reginio, 2007
3
Intertexts: Reading Pedagogy in College Writing Classrooms
writing that exhibits this sort of reductiveness: “I believe that Steedman's mother was trying to make the most out of herlife.” This is how Krygowski goesonto readher students' reductiveness: I have been seeing this urge for students to take  ...
Marguerite Helmers, 2002
4
Post-Jungian Criticism: Theory and Practice
The reductiveness in segments of time also forces a reductiveness in genres. Jim Collins, however, argues that TV is, in fact, a fecund postmodern device, one that offers a wealth of program variety: the eclecticism of television textuality ...
James S. Baumlin, Tita French Baumlin, George H. Jensen, 2012
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Stories, Theories and Things
We can prefer Freud as a clearer-away of illusions to his chief competitor, Jung, who offers himselfas a restorer ofprimal meanings but discredits almost all possibility of such restoration; but we will remain uneasy at the Freudian reductiveness.
Christine Brooke-Rose, 1991
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Poetry and Phantasy
The problem of reductiveness There is now no alternative to reading literature in some relation to psychoanalysis, a fact increasingly recognised among most of those concerned with literary study. To those who respond to any mention of ...
Antony Easthope, 1989
7
Art History: A Critical Introduction to Its Methods
First, there is a danger of historical reductiveness. Thomas points out that the very term colonialism is often used in a rather vague manner, as if it is self-evident. Yet its forms are myriad; think, for example, of the political and cultural differences ...
Michael Hatt, Charlotte Klonk, 2006
8
Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers
Fallacy. ofIllicit. Process. (Reductiveness). This kindof error reduces complexissues to onething, whichisa frequent mistake even among experienced play readers. Reducing Hamlet to the Freudian ...
James Thomas, 2013
9
The Passion of David Lynch: Wild at Heart in Hollywood
In this innovative book, she draws on these strategies to offer close readings of Lynch's films, informed by unprecedented, in-depth interviews with Lynch himself.
Martha P. Nochimson, 2012
10
User-Centered Technology: A Rhetorical Theory for Computers ...
Given an openness toward the inevitable reductiveness of the metaphor, we can move forward to discuss the theory in a forthright manner that reflects upon its deficiencies. While this is not a universal solution to the problem of taxonomic ...
Robert R. Johnson, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REDUCTIVENESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term reductiveness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Humphry Davy and the “safety lamp controversy”
It was such reductiveness that ignited and then fuelled the “safety lamp controversy”, which was played out – on newspaper letters pages, at public meetings, ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
The Toxic Worldview of Ta-Nehisi Coates
This doesn't make it less awful, but suggests the picture is more complicated than Coates' eloquent reductiveness suggests. His monstrous passage about 9/11 ... «Politico, Jul 15»
3
JESSICA DICKINSON with Danielle Mysliwiec
I was realizing the need to slow everything down—turn the reductiveness up and turn the contrast and chromatic drama down so that I can create this really ... «Brooklyn Rail, Jun 15»
4
Resurrections, Do-Overs, And Second Lives: A 2015 Poetry Preview
... but ultimately fighting an earnest battle against reductiveness and easy answers to the complex problems of the Internet age: "Every citizen of this world is on ... «NPR, Jan 15»
5
Our 10 Favorite Comics and Graphic Novels of the Year
Caption: The Multiversity demonstrates the potential and variety inherent in the superhero genre while, on another, it argues against the inherent reductiveness ... «Wired, Jan 15»
6
Lewis Baltz, Photographer of American Landscapes, Dies at 69
... of tract houses that seemed like a bridge between the romanticism of Minor White's barns and the reductiveness of Brice Marden's monochrome paintings. «New York Times, Nov 14»
7
The Movie Press' Oscar Obsession Is Ruining Fall Film Festivals for …
And what's genuinely gross about that industry is its utter reductiveness. Year after year, it boils film culture down to a horse race, treating movies as competitors ... «Flavorwire, Sep 14»
8
The Internet's Own Boy recounts the life and tragic death of hacktivist …
The Internet's Own Boy persuasively argues that a similar reductiveness lurked beneath the indictments that led Swartz to hang himself at age 26, with federal ... «A.V. Club, Jun 14»
9
Friday Book Design Blog: Mother Island by Bethan Roberts vs …
Of course there's probably more to it than that, and I haven't read it yet, so I don't know, but if you're worried that this smacks of reductiveness, then the cover, ... «The Independent, May 14»
10
Ignore the elaborate back story and just enjoy the cheap, friendly …
I wanted to hate that bacon for its pre-diluvian, kegger-at-the-frat house reductiveness. I couldn't hate it. Only my shame kept me from ordering a second round. «The Globe and Mail, Apr 14»

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