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Invasive vs Invasivity - What's the difference?

invasive | invasivity |

As nouns the difference between invasive and invasivity

is that invasive is an invasive organism, as, a plant or animal while invasivity is the condition of being invasive.

As an adjective invasive

is that invades a foreign country using military force.

invasive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That invades a foreign country using military force.
  • (of a plant or animal) That grows in environments which do not harbor natural enemes, often to the detriment of native species or of food or garden flora and fauna.
  • (medicine) (of a carcinoma etc'') That invades healthy tissue; (''of a procedure ) in which part of the body is entered
  • Intrusive on one's privacy.

    • Derived terms

    * invasively * invasiveness * noninvasive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An invasive organism, as, a plant or animal.
    • ----

    invasivity

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition of being invasive
  • (countable) The degree to which something is invasive