picturesqueness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English picturesque 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 picturesqueness From picturesque + -ness.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The condition of being picturesque.
He [Walter Savage Landor] was a man of somewhat leonine aspect as regards the general appearance and expression of the head and face, which accorded well with the large and massive build of the figure, and to which a superbly curling white beard added not only picturesqueness, but a certain nobility.
1887, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, “Walter S. Landor—G. P. Marsh”, in What I Remember […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley and Son […], →OCLC, pages 245–246:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| picturesquenesses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (10)
mk сликовитост (condition of being picturesque) · lt vaizdingumas (condition of being picturesque) · io piktindeso (condition of being picturesque) · io pitoreskeso (condition of being picturesque) · cs pitoresknost (condition of being picturesque) · cs malebnost (condition of being picturesque) · mk живописност (condition of being picturesque) · eo pitoreskeco (condition of being picturesque) · de Malerhaftigkeit (condition of being picturesque) · io pikturatreso (condition of being picturesque)