reductive
adjective
of or relating to reduction; serving to reduce or abridge.
reductiveness
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a word derived from
reductive.
Example Sentences
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To these eyes, however, the potential problem has less to do with historical inaccuracy than artistic reductiveness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
Of course one of the best things that Japan has taught me is not to think in terms of simple binaries, the kind of reductiveness I’m offering here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
Yet every time I was growing tired of his either/or reductiveness, Brooks would disarm me with an unexpected fact or swerve.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2015
It also has the reductiveness of its scenario.
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2010
In both those cases, after all, an undeniable reductiveness is going on, a shriveling of the complexity of the human body to the certainty of a single cell in a Petri dish.
From Time Magazine Archive
