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paintingness

paintingness noun: the quality of being painterly.

Noun

paintingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being painterly.
    • One cannot enough praise the expression and paintingness of the style, that realization to the mind of the thing described, that lyric plasticity of manner and sympathetic metamorphosis of diction, […]1843, J. W. Robberds, A memoir of the life and writings of the late William Taylor, page 374
  2. The property of being a painting.
    • Vermeer is also a great lover of the picture within a picture, a motif that insists that the viewer confront the paintingness of painting.1999, Carol Mavor, Lady Clementina Hawarden, Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden, page 88

Origin of paintingness

From painting + -ness.

Questions about paintingness

What does paintingness mean?
Paintingness means the quality of being painterly.
What part of speech is paintingness?
Paintingness is a noun.

Words near paintingness in the dictionary

  1. painting up
  2. painting with a broad brush
  3. painting with a wide brush
  4. painting with the same brush
  5. paintinglike
  6. paintingness
  7. paintings
  8. paintjob
  9. paintjobs
  10. paintless
  11. paintlessness

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