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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Destructiveness

/dĭs-trŭk'-tĭv-nĭs/ · De·struc·tive·ness · IPA /dɪstrˈʌktɪvnɪs/
01 n. The quality of destroying or ruining.
  1. 1.
    The quality of destroying or ruining.
  2. 2.
    The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy.(Phren.)