0 behaviour or activities that try to destroy or damage something, especially an established political system:
Many people have written about the subversiveness of the story's plot.
The novel was banned once the authorities understood the subversiveness of its subject.
The prisoners respond to their captors' brutality with resistance, subversiveness or bitter resentment.
This is true, but he is suitably cautious about drawing conclusions about implied subversiveness.
Yet the subversiveness of a text could not be too great if it were not to be rejected by the reader.
It is also argued that optimal innovation in the use of language is a mode of subversiveness, designed not only for aesthetic purposes but also for social and political change.
Such art encourages human growth and tolerance and it does this by using a form of positive social subversiveness which enables contact with the most reactionary elements within our society.
Many of them in highly exuberant language talked about subversiveness in nationalistic terms.
