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emotiveness

emotiveness noun: the condition of being emotive.

Noun

emotiveness (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being emotive
    • This happened a lot, beginning with a lounge-ready take on “It Might as Well Be Spring” and ending with a travesty of R&B emotiveness on Percy Mayfield’s “Please Send Me Someone to Love.”2009 July 1, Nate Chinen, “1 Charmer, 5 Albums, and Still a Teenager”, in New York Times

Origin of emotiveness

From emotive + -ness.

Questions about emotiveness

What does emotiveness mean?
Emotiveness means the condition of being emotive.
What part of speech is emotiveness?
Emotiveness is a noun.

Words near emotiveness in the dictionary

  1. emotionology
  2. emotions
  3. emotive
  4. emotive hardcore
  5. emotively
  6. emotiveness
  7. emotives
  8. emotivism
  9. emotivisms
  10. emotivist
  11. emotivists

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