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effusiveness

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ef·fu·sive  (-fysv)
adj.
1. Unrestrained or excessive in emotional expression; gushy: an effusive manner.
2. Profuse; overflowing: effusive praise.
ef·fusive·ly adv.
ef·fusive·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.effusiveness - a friendly open trait of a talkative person
expansiveness, expansivity
communicativeness - the trait of being communicative


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" cried the dying man, with all the effusiveness of a grief declared after long suppression, "ah
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
It is not criticism, but flattery that she wants; and I gush over them with what I feel to myself to be degrading effusiveness.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
She thanked him with just so much effusiveness as was seemly in presence of the grief he might be supposed to feel, and left him.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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