instructiveness
Americannoun
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At the time, he didn’t really understand the dynamic; he thought perhaps it came down to his penchant for instructiveness or people generally just enjoying his food.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2019
He said it admiringly, with mock instructiveness but also with triumph, like a naturalist who has just sighted a rare specimen.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 3, 2014
"It's never so hot on the water, Mrs. Merritt," said Mrs. Alger, with the instructiveness of an old habitude.
From Dr. Breen's Practice by William Dean Howells
The great instructiveness of these historical facts in connection with the life of the soul is not difficult to see.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
One is not here concerned with the abstract truth of the theory of population enounced by Malthus, but with its applicability to, or its instructiveness in the case of, the England of Queen Victoria.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
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