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picturesqueness

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pic·tur·esque  (pkch-rsk)
adj.
1. Of, suggesting, or suitable for a picture: picturesque rocky shores.
2. Striking or interesting in an unusual way; irregularly or quaintly attractive: a picturesque French café.
3. Strikingly expressive or vivid: picturesque language.
[Alteration of French pittoresque, from Italian pittoresco, from pittore, painter, from Latin pictor; see Pictor.]
pictur·esquely adv.
pictur·esqueness n.
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Noun1.picturesqueness - the quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid
expressiveness - the quality of being expressive
2.picturesqueness - visually vivid and pleasing
beauty - the qualities that give pleasure to the senses


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The natural aptitude of the French for seizing the picturesqueness of things seems to be peculiarly evinced in what paintings and engravings they have of their whaling scenes.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
The absence of picturesqueness cannot be laid to the charge of the docks opening into the Thames.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
Just where she had paused, the brook chanced to form a pool so smooth and quiet that it reflected a perfect image of her little figure, with all the brilliant picturesqueness of her beauty, in its adornment of flowers and wreathed foliage, but more refined and spiritualized than the reality.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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