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picturesqueness|pɪktjʊəˈrɛsknɪs, -tʃə-|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being picturesque. Also transf. and fig.
1794U. Price Ess. Picturesque I. 38 Grandeur and beauty have been pointed out and illustrated by painting as well as picturesqueness. [Note] I have ventured to make use of this word, which I believe does not occur in any writer. 1827Hare Guesses (1859) 13 Picturesqueness is that quality in objects which fits them for making a good picture. 1861Craik Hist. Eng. Lit. II. 64 There is little or nothing, however, of poetry or picturesqueness in Feltham's writing. 1867[see featureliness]. 1894Baring-Gould Deserts S. France I. 136 A bridge that surpasses even that of Prague in picturesqueness. 1907‘Mark Twain’ Christian Sci. ii. iii. 130 Repetition of pet poetic picturesquenesses. |
