Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)invasivenessThe quality of involving entry into the living body (as by incision or by insertion of an instrument).“Surgeons have traditionally performed this surgery using a conventional open incision into the chest wall or abdomen but today are increasingly offering the operation as a laparoscopic procedure that lessens the invasiveness of the surgery.”
(n)invasivenessThe quality of tending to spread; especially of tending to invade healthy tissue.“Our results provide support for within-host evolution as one but not the sole explanation for the invasiveness of these bacteria.”