attractiveness

noun — 2 senses

attractiveness

noun

Etymology From attractive + -ness.

1

The state of being attractive or engaging.

  • Given the vivacious young redhead's attractiveness, some might have assumed he had more than simply professional reasons for sheepdogging her career, but they would have been wrong. He'd seen something in her ...1999, David Weber, Echoes of Honor, Baen Publishing Enterprises, →ISBN:
  • The plants are equally attractive when different-colored zebrinas are trained on a fan-shaped or rectangular trellis. The rose-colored flowers, of which new ones blossom each morning, add to the attractiveness of this viny, succulent herb.2012, A. J. Oakes, Ornamental Grasses and Grasslike Plants, page 462:
2

The result of being attractive.

Synonyms
attraction, attractivity
Derived terms
market attractiveness, physical attractiveness

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