The quality, degree, or capacity of being destructive; the measure of how much damage something can cause.
From 'destructive' plus '-ity' (a suffix forming nouns that express a state, condition, or degree). Similar to how 'productive' becomes 'productivity,' 'destructive' becomes 'destructivity.'
Military strategists measure weapon 'destructivity' in terms of blast radius and impact force, but ecologists study the 'destructivity' of invasive species, which sometimes prove more harmful than bombs by completely remaking ecosystems.
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