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instructiveness - 2 dictionary results

in⋅struc⋅tive

   [in-struhk-tiv]
–adjective
1. serving to instruct or inform; conveying instruction, knowledge, or information; enlightening.
2. Grammar. noting a case, as in Finnish, whose distinctive function is to indicate means by which.
Origin:
1605–15; instruct + -ive
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in·struc·tive     (ĭn-strŭk'tĭv)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   Conveying knowledge or information; enlightening.

in·struc'tive·ly adv., in·struc'tive·ness n.
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