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descriptiveness

Variant of descriptive

adjective

describing; of or characterized by description; specif.,
  1. designating or of a branch of a science in which its data or materials are described and classified: descriptive anatomy
  2. Gram. designating an adjective that indicates a quality or condition of the person or thing named by the word it modifies: “big” in “big barn” is a descriptive adjective

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