dramaticness
nounEtymology From dramatic + -ness.
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The quality of being dramatic.
- His novels in the second place are idealistic novels;—because the duties of ordinary life are suppressed in them;—because they owe their dramaticness in general to the conflict between “passion” and “honour” [Cf. Alfred de Vigny, Grandeur et Servitude militaires];—and because vanquished honour and passion find no other refuge in them than in death [Cf. the habitual dénouements of classic tragedy].1898, Ferdinand Brunetière, translated by Ralph Derechef, Manual of the History of French Literature, London: T. Fisher Unwin, […], page 503:
- The intensity, dramaticness and fire of her work, made the speaker seem almost as one translated.1901 March 24, Daisy Fitzhugh Ayres, “Miss Kinkead as a Lecturer: Mrs. Daisy Fitzhugh Ayres Reviews a Winter Course of Delightful Literary Lectures”, in The Sunday Leader, Lexington, Ky., second section, page 1:
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- “Your majesty—my Devil,” I say, and am more or less thrilled with the dramaticness and the picturesqueness of it all.1903 October 25, Mary MacLane, “Mary MacLane Again Meets Her Kind Devil”, in Great Falls Daily Tribune, Great Falls, Mont., page 6:
- For soon were to sound out in all tragic dramaticness, now high now low, now in defeat and now jubilantly triumphant, the drums and tramplings of world-wide hostilities.1908, Patrick Vaux, The World’s Awakening, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 91:
- The country began to look theatrical, which was a pleasant change after Wells, and all my native dramaticness began to surge in me.1909, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, “Mrs. Senter to Her Sister, Mrs. Burden”, in Set in Silver, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 336:
- The dramaticness of this growth has been thus intensified by the stagnation which naturally ensued upon the disasters with which the century began.1913, The Town Planning Review, page 301:
- Synonyms
- dramaticity