expressivenessn.
/ɛkˈsprɛsɪvnɪs/ The quality of being expressive.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > high significance, expressiveness > [noun]
significancy1577
significance1585
expressiveness1655
meaningness1753
pregnancy1839
ideality1845
meaningfulness1904
expressivity1944
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. v. 224 Our English tongue was not improved to that expressivenesse, whereat at this day it is arrived.
1697 J. Addison Ess. Georgics in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. ¶¶1v The Murrain at the end [of the third Georgic] has all the expressiveness that words can give.
1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 282 This praxis is to show the peculiar force or expressiveness of a great many single words.
1751 Bp. J. Butler Serm. in Wks. (1874) II. 324 We should study what St. James, with wonderful..expressiveness, calls meekness of wisdom.
1812 Examiner 11 May 301/2 A song..composed..in a style of great expressiveness and insinuation.
1883 A. Roberts O.T. Revision vi. 134 Passages of rich expressiveness occur.
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