- 1
Destructiveness is the quality of causing damage — how destructive a person, a storm, a weapon, or a feeling is. We talk about the destructiveness of a war, or of jealousy, when we mean the power or the habit of harming, not one single smash. It is a fairly formal noun. Though actually, it is easy to mix this up with destruction: destruction is the event (the building is gone); destructiveness is the tendency or the scale of the harm.
破壞性、毀滅性
組成destructive + -ness (the quality of being that way).
同家族的字
- destructivethe adjective this noun is built from
- destroythe verb: to tear something down
- destructionthe event or result — not the same as the quality
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
destructivenessnoun
- 1
The state or quality of being destructive.
- Would Helen’s face-seductiveness have wrought as much destructiveness, Would Antony have followed Cleopatra like a lamb, Unless those ladies’ vanities for snaring male humanities Had been associated with a quantum suff. of glam.?
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。