Usually means: Simplifying complex ideas excessively, oversimplification.
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  1. reductiveness: Merriam-Webster
  2. reductiveness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. reductiveness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. reductiveness: Wiktionary
  5. reductiveness: Dictionary.com
  6. reductiveness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reductiveness: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (reductiveness)

▸ noun:  The quality of being reductive, of reducing things to their components

Similar:
reductivity, reductibility, reducibleness, reducibility, irreducibleness, reduceableness, irreducibility, irreductibility, minimalness, deconstructiveness, more...

Opposite:
expansiveness, inclusiveness, comprehensiveness

Types:
over-simplification, dumbing down, vulgarization, banalization, more...

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Similar:
reductivity, reductibility, reducibleness, reducibility, irreducibleness, reduceableness, irreducibility, irreductibility, minimalness, deconstructiveness, more...

Opposite:
expansiveness, inclusiveness, comprehensiveness

Types:
over-simplification, dumbing down, vulgarization, banalization, more...



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