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EXPRESSIVENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does expressiveness mean?
• EXPRESSIVENESS (noun)
The noun EXPRESSIVENESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being expressive
Familiarity information: EXPRESSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being expressive
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("expressiveness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "expressiveness"):
picturesqueness (the quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid)
Derivation:
expressive (characterized by expression)
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