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irresistibleness en · NOUN

Etymology

From irresistible + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being irresistible.
    • Once Rome, fully conscious of the irresistibleness of her power by land, had transferred her superiority also to the other element; now the mighty state was powerless at sea and, as it seemed, on the point of also losing its dominion at least over the Asiatic continent. 1854, Theodor Mommsen, The History of Rome, Book V:
    • If he could get our point of view and let some woman take a hand at him, she might efface his irresistibleness and make a man of him. 1897, Lilian Bell, From a Girl's Point of View: