Irresistibility
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The quality of being irresistible. uncountable
"They came a little before five. I had, as usual, to sit next to Miss Twist, and to bear, as well as I could, many jokes, hints, insinuations, &c, as well as many plain advances, on the part of the young lady, not at all in the way of love and regard, but of affectation and vanity, as though presuming upon the irresistibility of her three hundred thousand charms."
- 2 the quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist wordnet
Example
More examples"They came a little before five. I had, as usual, to sit next to Miss Twist, and to bear, as well as I could, many jokes, hints, insinuations, &c, as well as many plain advances, on the part of the young lady, not at all in the way of love and regard, but of affectation and vanity, as though presuming upon the irresistibility of her three hundred thousand charms."
Etymology
From irresistible + -ity.
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