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Definition of Attractiveness
1. Noun. The quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts. "Her personality held a strange attraction for him"
Specialized synonyms: Affinity, Allure, Allurement, Temptingness, Binding, Drawing Power, Fascination, Come-on, Enticement, Lure, Sexual Attraction, Show-stopper, Showstopper
Generic synonyms: Quality
Derivative terms: Attract, Attract, Attractive
2. Noun. Sexual allure.
Specialized synonyms: Adorability, Adorableness, Animal Magnetism, Beguilement, Bewitchery, Charisma, Personal Appeal, Personal Magnetism, Desirability, Desirableness, Oomph, Sex Appeal, Appeal, Appealingness, Charm, Spiff
Attributes: Attractive, Unattractive
Derivative terms: Attractive
Antonyms: Unattractiveness
Definition of Attractiveness
1. Noun. The state of being attractive or engaging. ¹
2. Noun. The result of being attractive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Attractiveness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Attractiveness
Literary usage of Attractiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"For the attractiveness of the recipient as well as the benevolence of the giver
is the ... In this connexion grace also stands for charm, attractiveness; ..."
2. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"... of phraseology and attractiveness of method which are necessary to induce a
school-boy to commence such studies. It is, however, a model of a book for ..."
3. Forensic Oratory: A Manual for Advocates by William Callyhan Robinson (1893)
"Sentences: attractiveness: Strength. The attractiveness of sentences, and their
consequent power to enchain attention and awaken impulse, depends upon their ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"... 1866), and with the greatest literary attractiveness by Horace Bushnell (Vicarious
Sacrifice, New York, 1865; see below, § 7; see also article BUSHNELL, ..."
5. The Italian Renaissance in England: Studies by Lewis Einstein (1902)
"... alluded to when he said that the English kept very jealous guard over their
wives.8 Most writers agreed about the great attractiveness of English women ..."
6. Biology and Its Makers by William Albert Locy (1908)
"The attractiveness of observations upon the life-histories and the structure of
insects, as shown particularly in the publications of Malpighi and ..."
7. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1902)
"In Bagehot's case, again, this quality appears in the curious attractiveness for
him of the more prosaic type of intellect. His article, for example ..."
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