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Definition of Appealingness
1. Noun. Attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates. "His smile was part of his appeal to her"
Generic synonyms: Attractiveness
Specialized synonyms: Siren Call, Siren Song, Winsomeness
Derivative terms: Appeal, Appealing, Appealing, Charm, Charm
Definition of Appealingness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being appealing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appealingness
Literary usage of Appealingness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"Since the hour when he left the house at Chelsea in full-hearted silence under
the effect of Mirah's farewell look and words— their exquisite appealingness ..."
2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"It was not vanity, — it was ready sympathy that had made him alive to a certain
appealingness in her behaviour towards him; and the difficulty with which ..."
3. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts by Colonial Society of Massachusetts (1918)
"If worth doing at all, then we should select a theory that will be attractive in
itself and will involve a wealth, consistency and appealingness of ..."
4. John Morley and Other Essays by George McLean Harper (1920)
"There is something of Shelley's doctrine, though none of the poignant appealingness
of Shelley's pain, none of Shelley's convincing seriousness, ..."
5. John Morley and Other Essays by George McLean Harper (1920)
"There is something of Shelley's doctrine, though none of the poignant appealingness
of Shelley's pain, none of Shelley's convincing seriousness, ..."
6. Renaissance Fancies and Studies by Vernon Lee (1896)
"Such works of art, such artists of widest wholesome appealingness, there are in
all periods of artistic development ; more in certain fortunate moments, ..."
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