Synonyms for suggestiveness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : suh g-jes-tiv, suh- |
| Phonetic Transcription : səgˈdʒɛs tɪv, sə- |
Définition of suggestiveness
Origin :- 1630s, "conveying a hint," from suggest + -ive. Specifically as a faintly euphemistic reference to proposals of indecent behavior, from 1888. Related: Suggestively; suggestiveness.
- noun sensuality
- It is full of suggestiveness, and, in its way, is as good as a cathedral.
- Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Can the English Gladstonians get away from the suggestiveness of this fact?
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
- He called her name; the ensuing silence was ghastly in its suggestiveness.
- Extract from : « The Web of the Golden Spider » by Frederick Orin Bartlett
- The involutions, the suggestiveness so attractive to adult ears, he cannot hear.
- Extract from : « Here and Now Story Book » by Lucy Sprague Mitchell
- And these have each their special religious associations and suggestiveness.
- Extract from : « The Worship of the Church » by Jacob A. Regester
- This suggestiveness was lost upon Catherine, who repeated her violent inquiry.
- Extract from : « Washington Square » by Henry James
- The tragic power and suggestiveness of these two poems is very remarkable.
- Extract from : « Yorkshire Dialect Poems » by F.W. Moorman
- This notwithstanding, they are valuable by reason of their suggestiveness.
- Extract from : « Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern » by Thomas Newbigging
- He loves words for their sound, their suggestiveness, their color.
- Extract from : « Expository Writing » by Mervin James Curl
- It is possible, of course, and there is a suggestiveness about it which—— Oh!
- Extract from : « The Riddle of the Mysterious Light » by Mary E. Hanshew
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