Picturesqueness
[piktʃw'reskris]
Definition
(noun.) visually vivid and pleasing.
(noun.) the quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid.
Typist: Mabel--From WordNet
Examples
- A great improvement it was called; but Margaret sighed over the old picturesqueness, the old gloom, and the grassy wayside of former days. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- In spite of her ironic smile at his picturesqueness, Gudrun liked to look at him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But its attractiveness begins and ends with its picturesqueness. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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