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PICTURESQUENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does picturesqueness mean?
• PICTURESQUENESS (noun)
The noun PICTURESQUENESS has 2 senses:
1. the quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid
2. visually vivid and pleasing
Familiarity information: PICTURESQUENESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("picturesqueness" is a kind of...):
expressiveness (the quality of being expressive)
Derivation:
picturesque (strikingly expressive)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Visually vivid and pleasing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("picturesqueness" is a kind of...):
beauty (the qualities that give pleasure to the senses)
Derivation:
picturesque (suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture)
Context examples
To stop and see people, and learn something of their life, and to fill our minds and memories with all the colour and picturesqueness of the whole wild, beautiful country and the quaint people!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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