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Repleteness

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re·plete  (r-plt)
adj.
1. Abundantly supplied; abounding: a stream replete with trout; an apartment replete with Empire furniture.
2. Filled to satiation; gorged.
3. Usage Problem Complete: a computer system replete with color monitor, printer, and software.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin repltus, past participle of replre, to refill : re-, re- + plre, to fill; see pel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
re·pleteness n.
Usage Note: Replete means "abundantly supplied" and is not generally accepted as a synonym for complete.
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This list of three characteristics--density, repleteness, and the use of exemplification and its related mode, expressiveness--are my simplification of Goodman's "symptoms of the aesthetic," wherein he lists five: syntactic density, semantic density, relative repleteness, exemplification, and multiple and complex reference (Goodman 67ff).
From dogma to aesthetica: evangelical eschatology gets a makeover by Swenson, Joanne M. / Cross Currents
And it is this repleteness of vehement emotion just held in check by the chosen form that makes so many of Baudelaire's most powerful lines seem to seethe at, and reach beyond, their surfaces, like.
Whispered disclosures by Ormsby, Eric / New Criterion
The monochromes Rauschenberg began there took him in two opposed directions: the black paintings toward a saturated repleteness (he said that he began them by painting over a ground of newspapers so that the field would already be full of marks(2)); the white paintings toward a barely touched emptiness and vulnerability to every event in their vicinity.
This is now: becoming Robert Rauschenberg by Crow, Thomas / Artforum International
 
 
 
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