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winningness en · NOUN

Etymology

From winning + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being winning.
    • Those who insist on charm, on winningness in style, on subtle harmonies and fine exquisiteness of suggestion, are disappointed in Burke 1879, John Morley, Burke:
    • Taylor tried a jape or two as in a campy hootch number for Linda Kent who, for some prankish reason, made her entrance behind an obliging cabbage; but the whole seemed underchoreographed and overdependent upon the winningness of the dancers. 1979, High Fidelity Musical America, volume 29, number 2: