disruptiveness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being disruptive.

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  • noun Quality or state of being disruptive.

Etymologies

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disruptive +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Given the "disruptiveness" element the court is focusing on, does that mean if the student unfurled a 14 foot banner with those mohammed cartoons and some nearby muslims start rioting that that sign would be verbotten?

    "Bong Hits 4 Jesus," "Bong Hits 4 Jesus," "Bong Hits 4 Jesus"... Ann Althouse 2007

  • What outside forces (not under the same microscope as the physician under scrutiny) are contributing to the physician's "disruptiveness"?

    Dr.J's HouseCalls 2009

  • Why qualities like disruptiveness and the shock value became marks of success?

    Questions and Answers 2009

  • Why qualities like disruptiveness and the shock value became marks of success?

    October 2009 2009

  • Edward DeMarco, the acting director of the FHFA, warned Thursday that the "disruptiveness" of such a change could make it harder for the government to recover the value of its investments in the companies.

    Report Cites Fannie, Freddie Executive Pay Nick Timiraos 2011

  • But none of them have held that the Supreme Court has actually ruled that off-campus speech is subject to the Tinker disruptiveness analysis, and your claim that a court would simply dismiss an argument to the contrary is flat out wrong.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » School Board Violating California Law? 2010

  • This is less about the disruptiveness of the audience ... it rarely happens ... and more about the fact that I end up eating way too much buttered popcorn and drink way too big a Coke for my good health, and the movies that I pay to see in the theatre had better be worth the ICU bill I'll ring up.

    Cinephobia 2010

  • What Faflak does by taking it up in both these registers is to emphasize its socially disruptive potential, but to give that disruptiveness a long-term cognitive weight by developing mesmerism towards its future in psychoanalysis.

    Notes on ''The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)' 2008

  • But none of them have held that the Supreme Court has actually ruled that off-campus speech is subject to the Tinker disruptiveness analysis, and your claim that a court would simply dismiss an argument to the contrary is flat out wrong.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » School Board Violating California Law? 2010

  • His attention improved, his disruptiveness at home and in school disappeared, and his irritability and anxiety vanished completely.

    The UltraMind Solution M.D. Mark Hyman 2009

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