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IMPRESSIVENESS

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

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Meaning:

Splendid or imposing in size or appearance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

impressiveness; magnificence; grandness; richness

Context examples:

the grandness of the architecture / 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)

Sense 2

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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)

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