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impressiveness

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im·pres·sive  (m-prsv)
adj.
Making a strong or vivid impression; striking or remarkable: an impressive ceremony.
im·pressive·ly adv.
im·pressive·ness n.
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Noun1.impressiveness - splendid or imposing in size or appearance; "the grandness of the architecture"; "impressed by the richness of the flora"
magnificence, grandness, richness
excellence - the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree
expansiveness, expansivity - a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand; "the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed"
majesty, stateliness, loftiness - impressiveness in scale or proportion
2.impressiveness - the quality of making a strong or vivid impression on the mind
quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare
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The impressiveness was habitual and not for show, for spectators were few.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters; and her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,--or from one of our elder poets,--in a paragraph of to-day's newspaper.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
The discourse was resumed presently, but it went lame and halting, all possibility of impressiveness being at an end; for even the gravest sentiments were constantly being received with a smothered burst of unholy mirth, under cover of some remote pew-back, as if the poor parson had said a rarely facetious thing.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
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