IMPRESSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impressiveness mean? 

• IMPRESSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun IMPRESSIVENESS has 2 senses:

1. splendid or imposing in size or appearance

2. the quality of making a strong or vivid impression on the mind

  Familiarity information: IMPRESSIVENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPRESSIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Splendid or imposing in size or appearance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

grandness; impressiveness; magnificence; richness

Context example:

impressed by the richness of the flora

Hypernyms ("impressiveness" is a kind of...):

excellence (the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "impressiveness"):

expansiveness; expansivity (a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand)

loftiness; majesty; stateliness (impressiveness in scale or proportion)

Derivation:

impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of making a strong or vivid impression on the mind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("impressiveness" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Derivation:

impressive (producing a strong effect)

impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)

 Context examples 

He explained to me that posts were few and uncertain, and that my writing now would ensure ease of mind to my friends; and he assured me with so much impressiveness that he would countermand the later letters, which would be held over at Bistritz until due time in case chance would admit of my prolonging my stay, that to oppose him would have been to create new suspicion.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)