sightfulness en · NOUN
Etymology
From sightful + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state of being sightful; perspicuity.
Let vs not wincke, thoughe voyde of pureſt ſightfullnes.
Albert Feuillerat, editor (1926), “The Second Book”, in The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia: Being the Original Version […] (Cambridge English Classics; The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; IV), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, page 143It makes sense, then, to reconsider nostalgia not as blindness but as sightfulness
2001, Peter Fritzsche, Specters of History: On Nostalgia, Exile, and Modernity: