protectiveness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

protectiveness
    n 1: a feeling of protective affection
    2: the quality of providing protection; "statistical evidence
       for the protectiveness of vaccination"

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Protectiveness \Pro*tect"ive*ness\, n.
   The quality or state of being protective. --W. Pater.
   [1913 Webster]

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