destructiveness
English
noun
Definitions
- the state or quality of being destructive
Etymology
Suffix from English destructive root from Proto-Indo-European *strew- (strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*strew-
Gloss
strew, spread, spread out, scatter, spread around
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- angiodestructive English
- antidestructive English
- autodestructive English
- constructible English
- constructional English
- constructionism English
- constructive English
- constructivism English
- constructivist English
- cyclodestructive English
- cytodestructive English
- destruct English
- destructible English
- destructive English
- destructively English
- destructivism English
- destructivist English
- destructivity English
- hyperdestructive English
- immunodestructive English
- indestructive English
- neurodestructive English
- nondestructive English
- nondestructiveness English
- obstruct English
- omnidestructive English
- self-destructive English
- superdestructive English
- undestructive English
- constructio Latin
- constructus Latin
- construere Latin
- construo Latin
- cōnstructiō Latin
- destructio Latin
- destructio, dēstructiōnem, dēstructiō Latin
- destructivus Latin
- destruo Latin
- dēstruō Latin
- instrumentalis Latin
- obstructio Latin
- strava Latin
- strues Latin
- *strew- Proto-Indo-European
- *straupijaną Proto-Germanic
- *strawjaną Proto-Germanic
- *streuną Proto-Germanic
- strȳnd Old English
- misconstruen Middle English
- destructif Middle French
- *strowō Proto-Italic
- стройи Old East Slavic
- destruct
- obstruct
- destructive
- destructible
- constructive
- destructively
- indestructive
- destructivism
- destructivity
- undestructive
- constructible
- destructivist
- constructional
- constructivism
- constructivist
- nondestructive
- constructionism
- omnidestructive
- cytodestructive
- antidestructive
- autodestructive
- superdestructive
- neurodestructive
- cyclodestructive
- hyperdestructive
- angiodestructive
- self-destructive
- immunodestructive
- nondestructiveness