| ADDICTIVENESS | • addictiveness n. The characteristic of being addictive. • ADDICTIVENESS n. the quality of being addictive. |
| CONSERVATISED | • conservatised v. Simple past tense and past participle of conservatise. • CONSERVATISE v. to grow conservative, also CONSERVATIZE. |
| DECEPTIVENESS | • deceptiveness n. The state or quality of being deceptive. • DECEPTIVENESS n. the state of being deceptive. |
| DEFECTIVENESS | • defectiveness n. The state or quality of being defective. • DEFECTIVE n. deficient. |
| DESCRIPTIVISM | • descriptivism n. (Linguistics) The practice of describing realistic forms, as opposed to prescribing idealistic norms… • DESCRIPTIVISM n. a theory of ethics by which only empirical statements are acceptable. |
| DESCRIPTIVIST | • descriptivist adj. Subscribing to, or related to, descriptivism. • descriptivist n. (Linguistics) Someone who records and describes actual rules regarding language usage, or who believes… • DESCRIPTIVIST adj. relating to descriptivism, a theory of ethics by which only empirical statements are acceptable. |
| DESTRUCTIVISM | • destructivism n. An art movement that involves destroying objects in front of spectators. • DESTRUCTIVISM n. the theory that a part of a whole may be considered a principle part if the destruction of that part would lead to the destruction of the whole. |
| DESTRUCTIVIST | • destructivist n. A representative of destructive principles, as in biblical criticism. • destructivist n. An artist involved in destructivism. • DESTRUCTIVIST n. a representative of destructive principles. |
| DISCOVERTURES | • discovertures n. Plural of discoverture. • DISCOVERTURE n. the state of being discovert, not married. |
| DISINCENTIVES | • disincentives n. Plural of disincentive. • DISINCENTIVE n. a deterrent. |
| INDUCTIVENESS | • inductiveness n. The condition of being inductive. • INDUCTIVE n. relating to induction. |
| OVERDISCOUNTS | • overdiscounts v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overdiscount. • OVERDISCOUNT v. to discount excessively. |
| REDUCTIVENESS | • reductiveness n. The quality of being reductive, of reducing things to their components. • REDUCTIVENESS n. the state of being reductive. |
| SEDUCTIVENESS | • seductiveness n. The property of being seductive. • SEDUCTIVENESS n. the state of being seductive. |
| SUBJECTIVISED | • subjectivised v. Simple past tense and past participle of subjectivise. • SUBJECTIVISE v. to make subjective, also SUBJECTIVIZE. |
| VELOCIPEDISTS | • velocipedists n. Plural of velocipedist. • VELOCIPEDIST n. one who rides a velocipede, an early form of bicycle, also VELOCIPEDEAN, VELOCIPEDER, VELOCIPEDIAN. |
| VIDEOCASSETTE | • videocassette n. A cassette containing a blank or prerecorded videotape on which visual images and sounds are recorded… • video␣cassette n. Alternative form of videocassette. • VIDEOCASSETTE n. a case containing videotape for use with a vcr. |