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sightfulness

sightfulness noun: the state of being sightful; perspicuity.

Noun

sightfulness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being sightful; perspicuity.
    • Let vs not wincke, thoughe voyde of pureſt ſightfullnes.Albert Feuillerat, editor (1926), “The Second Book”, in The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia: Being the Original Version […] (Cambridge English Classics; The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; IV)...
    • It makes sense, then, to reconsider nostalgia not as blindness but as sightfulness2001, Peter Fritzsche, Specters of History: On Nostalgia, Exile, and Modernity

Origin of sightfulness

From sightful + -ness.

Questions about sightfulness

What does sightfulness mean?
Sightfulness means the state of being sightful; perspicuity.
What part of speech is sightfulness?
Sightfulness is a noun.

Words near sightfulness in the dictionary

  1. sightenings
  2. sightens
  3. sighter
  4. sighters
  5. sightful
  6. sightfulness
  7. Sighthill
  8. sightholder
  9. sightholders
  10. sighthole
  11. sightholes

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