poeticity

Noun

poeticity (uncountable)

1. The quality of being poetic.
   • You seem to think that the whole virtue of tragedy lies in its poeticity; and the softer, the sweeter, the more soul-soothing, the more hushing the poetry is, the better you think it, though the audience go to sleep under your noses.1823 July, “A Letter to the Dramatists of the Day”, in The London Magazine, volume VIII, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], page 85, column 2
   • Faguet answers Voltaire’s remarks upon the famous couplet of Rodogune: “Il est des noeuds secrets, il est des sympathies . . .” to the effect that “the poet is always himself talking and that passion does not thus express itself,” by saying that people are accustomed to express themselves in this...1920, Benedetto Croce, translated by Douglas Ainslie, “The Mechanism of the Cornelian Tragedy”, in Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, page 399

   Synonyms:

   poeticality, poeticalness, poeticness

   Antonyms:

   unpoeticality, unpoeticalness, unpoeticity, unpoeticness