the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > clearness, lucidity > simplifying, popularization > [noun]
1953 6 148 It is such a notion, I take it, that led Mr. Ellison back to the widely-ranging novel of the ninetee[n]th century,..as against the sparse reductiveness of the Hemingway school.
2005 13 June 129/1 I saw through all the pretenses of psychoanalysis—its sterile reductiveness, its hostility to unscripted experience.