picturesqueness
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)
- the quality of being strikingly expressive or vividType of expressiveness
- visually vivid and pleasingType of beauty
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“picturesqueness” is listed under Picturesque.
Pic′tur·esque′ adjective
Origin: It. pittoresco: cf. F. pittoresque. See Pictorial.
Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language.
What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and the sublime? It is... the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess.— Thomas DeQuincey
— Pic′wb-a2′>′tur·esque′wb-a1′>′ly, adverb — Pic′wb-a2′>′tur·esque′wb-a1′>′ness, noun
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54