Impressiveness
[ɪm'prɛsɪvnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of making a strong or vivid impression on the mind.
(noun.) splendid or imposing in size or appearance; 'the grandness of the architecture'; 'impressed by the richness of the flora'.
Checked by Brett--From WordNet
Examples
- His very name carried an impressiveness hardly to be measured without a precise chronology of scholarship. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For subtilty of principle, impressiveness of action, and breadth of results, there is nothing comparable with it among mechanical agencies. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- She had a true static impressiveness, she was a social artist in some ways. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Marietta