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picturesqueness
(encz) | picturesqueness,malebnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Picturesqueness
(gcide) | Picturesque \Pic`tur*esque"\, a. [It. pittoresco: cf. F.
pittoresque. See Pictorial.]
Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture;
representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate
to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which
is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic;
vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque
language.
[1913 Webster]
What is picturesque as placed in relation to the
beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the
characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. --De
Quincey.
[1913 Webster] -- Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv. --
Pic`tur*esque"ness, n.
[1913 Webster] |
picturesqueness
(wn) | picturesqueness
n 1: the quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid
2: visually vivid and pleasing |
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Picturesqueness
(gcide) | Picturesque \Pic`tur*esque"\, a. [It. pittoresco: cf. F.
pittoresque. See Pictorial.]
Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture;
representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate
to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which
is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic;
vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque
language.
[1913 Webster]
What is picturesque as placed in relation to the
beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the
characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. --De
Quincey.
[1913 Webster] -- Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv. --
Pic`tur*esque"ness, n.
[1913 Webster] |
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