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Definition of Personableness
1. Noun. The complex of attributes that make a person socially attractive.
Definition of Personableness
1. Noun. The quality of being personable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Personableness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Personableness
Literary usage of Personableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ninety-six Sermons by Lancelot Andrewes (1850)
"... all that he is, for whatsoever besides this he is, is as if it were not; this
is all things, for without this, with all his person and personableness, ..."
2. The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1906)
"... and a good appearance to the utmost: I know no other set of men but what lose
something of their personableness when they cease to be quite young. ..."
3. Recollections of Literary Characters and Celebrated Places by A. T. Thomson (1854)
"High blood was requisite — not too high—the kinsmen of royalty were generally
out of favour; personableness and youth were essentials, for Henry liked not ..."
4. Emily Fox-Seton: Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1901)
"Osborn's personableness was not of a kind attractive to the unbiassed male observer.
Men saw his cruel young jowl and low forehead, and noticed that his ..."
5. Works by Lancelot Andrewes, John Buckeridge (1854)
"... all that he is, for whatsoever besides this he is, is as if it were not; this
is all things, for without this, with all his person. and personableness, ..."
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