Suggestiveness
noun
noun ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state or quality of being suggestive. uncountable
"Those scholars regard the suggestiveness or leadingness of such questions as a matter of convention […]"
- 2 The state or quality of being full of suggestions, of stimulating thought. wordnet
- 3 The result or product of being suggestive. countable, rare
Example
More examples"Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out. It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky."
Etymology
From suggestive + -ness.
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