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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So, I’m still unlearning that, which is the reductiveness of the ’90s, where you have to stay one thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025
The reductiveness of that thesis is mitigated to some extent by the expansiveness of the storytelling — or perhaps it’s the other way around.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2020
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
Eisenberg nods, and enjoys the reductiveness of the reading.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 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
