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picturesqueness

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Picturesque  \Pic`tur*esque"\,  a.  [It.  pittoresco:  cf  F. 
  pittoresque  See  {Pictorial}.] 
  Forming,  or  fitted  to  form  a  good  or  pleasing  picture; 
  representing  with  the  clearness  or  ideal  beauty  appropriate 
  to  a  picture;  expressing  that  peculiar  kind  of  beauty  which 
  is  agreeable  in  a  picture,  natural  or  artificial;  graphic; 
  vivid;  as  a  picturesque  scene  or  attitude;  picturesque 
  language. 
 
  What  is  picturesque  as  placed  in  relation  to  the 
  beautiful  and  the  sublime?  It  is  .  .  .  the 
  characteristic  pushed  into  a  sensible  excess.  --De 
  Quincey.  --  {Pic`tur*esque"ly},  adv  --  {Pic`tur*esque"ness}, 
  n. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  picturesqueness 
  n  :  visually  vivid  and  pleasing




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