impressivity en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *per-? Proto-Indo-European *pres-der. Proto-Italic *pres- Latin premō Latin imprimō Latin impressusder. Middle English impressen English impress Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English impressive Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English impressivity From impressive + -ity.
Meanings
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(rare, uncountable) The quality of being impressive.
Over against the masculine expressivity is the feminine impressivity.
1922, The Pedagogical Seminary, volume 29, page 161:With him the impressivity of the spirit is all in all; and whatever enhances this impressivity purifies the spirit, because it abases it more completely beneath the Divine Impressor.
1869, The North British Review, volume 51, page 287:The citation that accompanied the Holley Award for combined excellence in athletics and scholastics was in Latin and Colonel Robert Hale Franklin's voice rolled out the phrases with sonorous impressivity that June afternoon when the student body and such parents as could get away gathered on the lawn beside the chapen for graduation exercises.
1963, Hotel Mamie Stover, page 50: