Dictionary

interestingness en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English interesting Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English interestingness From interesting + -ness.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The state or quality of being interesting.
   • Several studies in computer science have looked at what makes images interesting from a computational perspective. Researchers have typically described interestingness in two ways. Visual interestingness is the extent to which an image can hold or catch the viewer’s attention due to its intrinsic visual qualities (see Constantin et al. for a review of the most recent works in this space). Researchers have found that, for example, images are more interesting when they are more aesthetically pleasing or when their content is visually complex or unfamiliar. Social interestingness is often also called popularity and corresponds to the extent to which an image is liked by a large number of people in a community. 2022, Daniele Rama, Tiziano Piccardi, Miriam Redi, Rossano Schifanella, “A large scale study of reader interactions with images on Wikipedia”, in EPJ Data Science, →DOI, retrieved 24 Jun 2026:
   • The interestingness or real life relevance of anomalies is a key feature of anomaly detection. 2009, Chandola, V.; Banerjee, A.; and Kumar, V., "Anomaly detection: A survey", ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 41, no. 3, Article 15 (July 2009), 58 pages. DOI = 10.1145/1541880.1541882
   • Today, popularity is typically a multialgorithmic measure. At Flickr, a photo's interestingness derives from views, comments, notes, bookmarks, favorites... 2010, Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender, Search Patterns: Design for Discovery:

Forms

Translations (8)

tr ilginçlik (state of being interesting) · de interessante Beschaffenheit (state of being interesting) · cs zajímavost (state of being interesting) · io interesanteso (state of being interesting) · eo interesanteco (state of being interesting) · fr caractère intéressant (state of being interesting) · fi mielenkiintoisuus (state of being interesting) · de Interessantheit (state of being interesting)